Bottled Vase Description

      The Bottled Vase has a slight s-curve giving it a settle movement within the form of it. The potter gave this vase a very big belly and then a skinny neck which starts to give it balance. To continue with giving the vase even more balance, the potter gave it a foot and added a very wide mouth/lip. All of these elements to the vase makes it look very elegant. 

      To further the beauty of this vase, the potter decided on a glaze. He had choosen a celadon glaze, which is a very common glaze to use in this period. A celadon glaze is a glaze that comes in various colors and will craze in different firing conditions. This particular vase does have crazing or a crackling pattern -- it may because of too fast of a cooling period or maybe the glaze shrunk more than the clay body. Many different variables can happen to cause these things. Also, the coloring of the crazing maybe because of it being stained by a tea or simply by age. 

Fig 4.24 Bottled vase. Southern

Song dynasty. Guan

porcellanous stoneware

Photo Credit:
Kampen-O'Riley, Michael. "China." Art beyond the West: The Arts of Western and Central Asia, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006. 130. Print.


References: 
Kampen-O'Riley, Michael. "China." Art beyond the West: The Arts of Western and Central Asia, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006. 130. Print.

Peterson, Beth. "Crazing." About. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2014. <http://pottery.about.com/od/glazeproblems/tp/craze.htm>.

"Learn About Celadon Glazes." Amacocom American Art Clay Co Inc RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2014. <http://www.amaco.com/celadon-glazes/>.