"Family Collection" continues to pay attention to the special program "Follow the Cultural Relics to See the Past and Present", and the "Quanzhou Maritime Archaeological Harvest Achievement Exhibition" is being held at the Fuzhou Museum, with 122 sets of cultural relics and more than 200 pictures provided by the Quanzhou Museum. Through this exhibition, the general public can better understand the cultural relics of underwater archaeology, and let us experience a different journey to the ocean. Today, let's take a look at a group of Ming Dynasty water relics Anping pot.
The shape of the Anping pot is similar to the shape of a turtle egg, commonly known as the turtle urn, and according to legend, it is used by Zheng Chenggong's subordinates to hold gunpowder, that is, a kind of gunpowder jar. Because Zheng Chenggong is known as the national surname Ye, this kind of gunpowder bottle is called "national surname bottle" by the people of Fujian and Taiwan, and this group of Anping pots is out of the water in the Yongning sea area of Shishi, Fujian.
Fujian Shishi Yongning sea area is the only place of Quanzhou maritime trade, in the Ming Dynasty, the whole country maritime merchants gathered here, out of the water relics for ceramics and a small number of other items, both Fujian Province kiln site products, but also Zhejiang Yue kiln, Longquan kiln, Jiangxi Jingdezhen kiln, Jiangsu Yixing kiln site products, these Anping pots in front of you are Fujian local Qingyun kiln products.
According to Han Jing, a docent of Fuzhou Museum, Anping pot is a crude white porcelain, which is only covered with white glaze inside and outside, and has a moisture-proof function. Except for a very small number of products with inscriptions, there are basically no other decorative patterns, and due to the difference in firing conditions, the glaze color changes from gray to white to cyan.
In addition, the inside of the jar is almost full of glaze, and the upper and lower bodies are combined and molded, and traces of bonding can be seen near the center of the belly, which is generally classified as porcelain due to high-temperature firing, which is also the biggest difference from other types of filling containers, and it is said that it was also specially made for naval operations.
Anping pot is one of the few ceramics named after Taiwan's place name in the history of ceramics, and it is still used in the Anping area. It is a physical witness of cultural exchanges between Fujian and Taiwan, and has an important influence and status in the history of Chinese ceramics.