Two Chinese Song dynasty lidded Cizhou-style jars

dc.contributor.other	Van Tilburg, J.A.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-07-06T12:49:48Z
dc.date.available	2016-07-06T12:49:48Z
dc.date.created	960 AD
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description	This baluster-shaped Jun-ware vase is covered with colourful sang-de-boeuf glaze. The true ash glaze is thick, opalescent and flocculent over the light grey stoneware body. Jun-ware factories continued to produce the ware through the Song and Yuan dynasties and as late as the 16th century. Consequently there is much difficulty in distinguishing the Song and later Jun-wares. The tendency is to call the finer specimens Song and the coarser Yuan or Ming. The great fascination of Jun-ware lies in its glaze and Jun glazes have long been among the most admired and least understood of Chinese high-fired effects. The most typical colour of Jun-wares, namely the purple-red was a mixture of copper-red, iron-blue and opalescence. This was achieved by painting the copper pigment on top of the raw Jun glaze, before the wares were given a high-temperature firing. Collectors cherish Jun-wares and sayings have it that “Gold has its price, but Jun-wares are beyond price” and “if you don’t own a Jun-ware, you don’t count as rich”. Yet the Chinese disliked Jun-wares because they were considered too gaudy and often referred to them as “donkey’s liver and horse’s lungs” in derision.	en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship	Ceramic 101	en_ZA
dc.format.extent	230 mm x 160 mm	en_ZA
dc.format.medium	Stoneware	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53870
dc.publisher	Department of the University of Pretoria Art	en_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseries	UP-Art : paintings, drawings and sculptures	en_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseries	D700885	en_ZA
dc.rights	Copyright of the electronic version, University of Pretoria.	en_ZA
dc.subject	Jun-ware vase	en_ZA
dc.title	Two Chinese Song dynasty lidded Cizhou-style jars	en_ZA
dc.type	Image	en_ZA