Bowl
Asian Art
Starting in the early Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), the Xinping kilns in Jiangxi province (later renamed as the Jingdezhen kilns) developed a very fine, white-bodied porcelain. A luminous glaze with an icy blue tinge called qingbai (blue-white) was applied to porcelain to accentuate its delicacy. In his treatise Tao ji (Records on Ceramics), the Southern Song ceramic historian Jiang Qi describes it as being so pure that it rivaled jade. At its center, this qingbai bowl has a molded design of fish swimming in a lotus pond. Fish symbolize wealth in China because the character for “fish” (yu) is a homophone of the character for “abundance” (yu).
MEDIUM
Porcelain with qingbai glaze
DATES
960â1127
DYNASTY
Northern Song Dynasty
PERIOD
Northern Song Dynasty
DIMENSIONS
2 3/4 x 7 5/16 in. (7 x 18.5 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Asian Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
37.132
CREDIT LINE
By exchange
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Bowl, 960â1127. Porcelain with qingbai glaze, 2 3/4 x 7 5/16 in. (7 x 18.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, By exchange, 37.132. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.132_bw.jpg)
IMAGE
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