Dish

The two-colored crackle on the glaze of this piece, known as "the golden thread and iron line," betray this piece as an imitation of classical ge ware. On true ge wares, the iron-colored crackle was generally on a larger scale, while the golden crackle was finer and smaller. The body is white, and has a hard texture, bearing a rounded footring edge colored in brown. The glazed base yielded six small surrounding one spur dots in the center, slipped in brown. The imitation ge product varied in shape and was a particular achievement of the Qianlong imperial kiln. A dish of the Qianlong ge type was deliberately not provided with a mark (Palace Mus. 1989: 130).