Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early waresHobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
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Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early wares
Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
Porcelain, Chinese; Pottery, Chinese
In addition to the mottled glazes--which, by the way, are the forerunners
of the so-called "tiger-skin" porcelains of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries--and the single colours already mentioned, instances have been
identified on the principles already indicated of wares with a full yellow
glaze and a streaky, brownish yellow. An interesting piece (Plate 8) in
the Eumorfopoulos Collection is covered with a deep violet blue glaze on
a fine white body. Others, again, have a dark chocolate brown glaze on a
reddish buff body, and a rare ewer in the British Museum is distinguished
by a deep olive brown glaze flecked with tea green, which seems to
anticipate by a thousand years the "tea dust" glazes of the Ch'ien Lung
period.[47]
Another variety of T'ang glaze, of which I have seen one example, was an
olive brown with large splashes of a light colour, a greyish white, but
with surface so frosted over by decay that its original intention remained
in doubt. One might say that this was the father of the Japanese Takatori
glazes with deep brown under-colour and large patches of frothy white.
We may mention here three remarkable specimens found in a grave with a
T'ang mirror and described in _Man_ in 1901,[48] which are in the British
Museum. One is an oblate ovoid vase, with small neck and mouth, of hard,
light buff body, coated with a dull greenish black glaze with minute
specks of lighter colour. The others are tea bowls of hard buff ware with
dull brick-red glaze, not far removed in colour from the Samian ware of
Roman times. No exact Chinese parallel has yet been found to these three
pieces, though something approaching them is seen in certain bowls in the
Eumorfopoulos collection which have a reddish brown glaze breaking into
black, being apparently of the type associated with the name of Chien
yao,[49] and which are known in Japan as _kaki temmoku_. This early kind
of _temmoku_, which was probably made in Honan, has a hard whitish body,
and the glaze is sometimes flecked with tea green as well as with golden
brown. In some cases, too, a floral design or a leaf has been impressed
or stencilled on the black glaze and appears in the brown or green colour
(Plate 43, Fig. 1). It is said that a somewhat similar brown _temmoku_
ware was made in Corea as well.
The survival of the leaf green glaze of Han type has already been noted.
It occurs in Plates 12 and 13.
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