"Family Collection" continues to pay attention to the special program "Follow the Cultural Relics to See the Past and the Present", and the "Quanzhou Maritime Archaeological Harvest Achievement Exhibition" is being held at the Fuzhou Museum, which provides 122 sets of cultural relics and more than 200 pictures by the Quanzhou Museum. Through this exhibition, everyone can better understand the cultural relics of underwater archaeology. Today, let's take a look at a Yuan Dynasty Dehua kiln white glaze octagonal powder box.
This white glaze powder box has a unique shape and complete condition, and it can be seen that a kind of flower is lightly printed on the lid of the compact, due to the age, the tire glaze is not too tightly combined, and there are currently some ice cracks in the open piece.
The ceramic powder box has appeared in the Tang Dynasty, it is an ancient woman's rouge utensils, but also a part of the ancient woman's dowry, so the shape is very beautiful. In the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of ceramic powder boxes were exported, and the type of the instrument also changed in different periods.
According to Han Jing, a docent of Fuzhou Museum, this unique octagonal shape powder box is more difficult to fire than that of a round powder box, and in the process of firing, it is more difficult to fire because the special-shaped utensils will shrink, and the possibility of fragmentation and deformation is greater after entering the kiln. Because of this, the angular object is also more exquisite.
This powder cartridge produced by the Dehua kiln in the Yuan Dynasty was out of the water in the Philippine waters, indicating that it was a product of export trade at that time. The shape of the powder box in the Yuan Dynasty also laid the foundation for the shape of the powder box in the Ming and Qing dynasties, that is to say, the Ming and Qing powder box porcelain basically referred to the Yuan Dynasty type to fire.