Chinese Meiping Vase Xiuwi, China, Northern Song period, 12th centuryChinese potters developed the t
Chinese Meiping Vase Xiuwi, China, Northern Song period, 12th centuryChinese potters developed the technique of sgraffito (incising the design through a colored slip) during the Northern Song period. This Cizhou vase features vines and flowers created by cutting through a black slip.(Read More Now! does not work here)Song-era artists produced superb ceramics. Some reflect their patrons’ interests in antiquities and imitate the powerful forms of Shang and Zhou bronzes. Song ceramics, however, more commonly had elegant shapes with fluid silhouettes. Many featured monochromatic glazes, such as the famous celadon wares, also produced in Korea. A quite different kind of pottery, loosely classed as Cizhou, emerged in northern China. The example shown is a vase of the high-shouldered shape known as meiping. The tightly twining vine and flower-petal motifs on this vase closely embrace the vessel in a perfect accommodation of surface design to vase shape. (x) -- source link
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