Collection boutique 丨 Nanjing Jiangning District Museum: Celadon double chicken head pot

Celadon double chicken head pot with a caliber of 8 cm, 14 cm bottom diameter, 21 cm high, cultural relics during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Porcelain. Gray -white tires, green and green glaze, with vertical glaze phenomena. Shallow plate, long neck, slippery shoulder, drum belly, flat bottom. There are symmetrical two bridges in the shoulder, and the head of the chicken is placed. The chicken mouth is connected with the belly of the device.

Celadon Double Chicken Chicken House Nanjing Jiangning District Museum Collection

The chicken head pot was one of the most characteristic utensils in the Six Dynasties. A chicken head was placed on the shoulders as a pot flow. The drooling of the early chicken head pots was mostly solid, and the water could not be produced. The chicken head was purely decorative. It was usually decorated with the chicken head and cocktail symmetrically on the shoulders of the pot, making it echo the head and tail. The creation of the chicks is novel and clever, the form is vivid and interesting, which is amazing. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the head of the chicken had a neck, and the drooling was dredged. The shape of the mouth was changed from a sharp shape to a round shape to facilitate the output of the water, from the decorative to a practical open mouth. Round long handle, the upper end is attached to the mouth of the device, and the lower end is attached to the upper abdomen, which is easy to hold. In the Sui Dynasty, the body of the pot became slender, the neck was taller, the handle was more common, the shape was beautiful, and it was more practical.

The use of animal images as utensils, as early as the era of Chinese business and Zhou dynasties, was widely popular. At that time, it was only manifested on some bronze utensils. Because of its vivid, image, and beautiful characteristics, it was deeply loved by people. Later, this technology was later. , Gradually transplanted into the shape of ceramics, especially at the time of the celadon firing at that time, it was the first to create a generation of celadon shape. Among them, the first pot of the chicken was the leader in the celadon utensils. The chicken head began in the end of the Three Kingdoms, and it was popular in the two times to the Sui Dynasty. Until the Tang Dynasty, it gradually disappeared and replaced by holding the pot.

Source: Nanjing Jiangning District Cultural and Tourism Bureau Nanjing Jiangning District Rong Media Center

Author unit: Cultural and Tourism Bureau of Jiangning District, Nanjing City

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