Basin with foliated rim in celadon glaze, Yuan dynasty, 14th century

Basin with foliated rim in celadon glaze, Yuan dynasty, 14th century

• Image Number: K1B017188N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Yuan dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Floral apparatus
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Four petal Begonia shaped flowerpot, with wide mouth and narrow folding edge, copper clasp inlaid along the edge, deep wall, four slag cakes around the inner bottom, slightly concave outer bottom, and four cloud shaped feet at the bottom. Underburn, apply green glaze inside and outside, the glaze is thick, the glaze is green and gray, the glaze is covered with gray flakes, clear and recognizable bubbles emerge in the glaze layer, the foot end is coated with ochre juice, and dark gray carcass is exposed locally. Although there are crabapple shaped basin supports unearthed in the tombs of the Southern Song Dynasty, because similar shapes are also found in the Jun kilns handed down from generation to generation, and today’s scholars have said that Jun kilns’ flower vessels were burned in the 15th century, it suggests that the lower limit of the firing of this work may be as late as the Ming Dynasty.