White porcelain tunic lid jar

Age: Sui

Excavation site: In 1954, the tomb of Ji Wei in Guojiatan, Xi'an City, was excavated

Collection unit: Shaanxi History Museum

Height 12.5 cm, caliber 12 cm, base diameter 18 cm. The shape of the instrument is like a zun, with a corset waist, and the bottom diameter is slightly larger than the caliber and the same as the cover diameter. The lid is extravagant along the outer edge, the middle is swollen like a raspberry, and the button is missing. The mouth of the tank is engraved with a string pattern along the lower and lower edges. The white matter of the fetus is fine. The inside and outside of the body are glazed with white glaze, slightly yellowish, and the glaze has ice cracks.

This jar is well-made, graceful and generous, with straight lines, fluent and smooth, and its corset shape is influenced by the West Asian gold and silver style. The production of white porcelain in the Sui Dynasty is not very large, mainly the utensils used by the upper class, and there are few excavations in the past, and complete utensils are even rarer. Therefore, this white glazed belt lid jar provides us with precious physical materials for our study of Sui Dynasty white porcelain.

Source: Shaanxi History Museum