M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES

  

 

   

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY QINGBAI PORCELAIN DISH

China, 960–1127 A.D.

 

 

 

 

         

 

  

 

Of 6-petaled lotus form in a pale blue green Qingbai glaze, the interior finely incised with an open lotus blossom;

unglazed foot

 

Provenance: with E&J Frankel, Ltd., NYC, bearing label

 

Condition: Excellent

 

Celadon is held to be the aristocrat of Chinese glazes, produced from the 7th century AD, and reaching its zenith in the 13th and 14th centuries.

 The glaze, named perhaps after a character in a French wearing a green costume, contains a small amount of iron oxide, which changes color

with oxygen during firing. The pale blue-green Qingbai is the most desirable of the colorations, receiving the least amount of oxygen.

 Celadons were thought to have magical properties, curing illnesses, summoning religious forces, and even speaking. 

Newborn children of nobility were often presented on celadon. 

 

The lotus grows in muddy water but emerges clean from it - thus in art representing "purity in adversity",

as well as maturity, creative power and genius.

 

6” Diameter

 

SOLD

 

#5900

 

  

 

 

For Related Qingbai / Yingqing Celadons, please click below:

 

Yuan Lobed Qingbai Dish

Pair Southern Song Yingqing Bowls

Associated Pair of Yuan Qingbai Cups

Five Dynasties Qingbai Dish

 

 

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