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17 juillet 2012

Lobed flower pot. Numbered or Official Jun ware. Ming dynasty, about AD 1368–1435

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Lobed flower pot. Stoneware body covered in blue and purple glazes with olive-green on base. Numbered or Official Jun ware 官鈞窯. Juntai, Yuxian, Henan province 河南省, 禹縣, 鈞台. Ming dynasty, about AD 1368–1435. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF 319 © Trustees of the British Museum

Height: 174 mm. Diameter: 261 mm. Diameter: 128 mm (base). Jun ware lobed flower-pot. The flower-pot has a grey-brown body with pale blue glaze on the interior and purple glaze on the exterior with 'earthworm' marks caused by splitting. There are five holes cut into the base and two inscriptions incised into glaze on the base after firing along with chinese numeral wu (five).

If the inscription incised into the base is to be relied on, this flower pot was used probably by the Qianlong emperor (r. AD 1736–95), to decorate the Iris and Orchid Chambers芝蘭室用 (Zhilan shi yong ‘for use in the Iris and Orchid Chambers’) within the 重華宫 (Zhonghua Gong ‘Palace of Cherished Glory’) of the Forbidden City. This palace was part of the emperor’s private quarters. The flower pot was incised before firing with the character 五wu, meaning five, on the base and is drilled with five holes for drainage. Originally it would have rested on a matching six-lobed saucer. 

 

Bibliographic reference: Medley, Margaret, Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 7 of 12, Tokyo, Kodansha ltd, 1975

Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1999

 

Yorke Hardy, Sheila, Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1953

 

Krahl, Regina; Harrison-Hall, Jessica, Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection, London, BMP, 2009

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