Dish

China

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 204

The cracks on this dish, made to resemble the accidental cracks that sometimes occurred during the firing of ceramics, are deliberate. The piece is an example of ceramics produced in south China near the Southern Song capital of Hangzhou to re-create imperial wares produced earlier in the north: delicate cracks, sometimes known as crazing, are one of the hallmarks of the famed, and rare, Ru ware produced for the Northern Song court.

Dish, Stoneware with crackled blue glaze (Guan ware), China

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Dish, Stoneware with crackled blue glaze (Guan ware), China
Dish, Stoneware with crackled blue glaze (Guan ware), China
Dish, Stoneware with crackled blue glaze (Guan ware), China
Dish, Stoneware with crackled blue glaze (Guan ware), China

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