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Jizhou ware
(China)
- Title
- Tea bowl
- Other titles:
- Tea bowl with resist design
- Place of origin
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Jiangxi Province →
China
- Period
- Southern Song 1127 - 1279 → Song dynasty 960 - 1279 → China
- Year
- circa 12th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware with resist design
- Dimensions
-
5.3 x 10.3cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Graham E. Fraser 1988
- Accession number
- 520.1988
- Location
- Lower Asian gallery
- Further information
The imperial court was forced to leave its capital at Kaifeng and flee south to Hangzhou in 1126. Among the southern kilns that were imposed upon to increase and improve production under the new patronage of the Southern Song court were those of Jian in Fujian province and Jizhou in Jiangxi province. These two centres were almost exclusively concerned with the production of tea bowls. The popularity of their bowls was a response to the rise of the tea cult and an aesthetic preference for drinking pale tea out of dark glazed bowls. The motif of the plum blossom appears in the art of Song dynasty China from the 1100s, with poets, court painters and craftspeople delighting in its transient beauty.
Such Jizhou ware glaze transmutations as 'partridge feather' and 'tortoise shell' were admired by the literati and Chan Buddhist monks. A Jizhou innovation was the use of cut-out paper patterns for reserve designs.
'Jizhou ware', The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.106.
- Bibliography (2)
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'Early Chinese Art' by Jackie Menzies, pg. 18-29., Asian Collection Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales 1990, 1990, 28 (colour illus.).
'Early Ceramics', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 106 (colour illus.).
