The Homing Birds is a contemporary Chinese Longquan celadon artwork mainly for decorative purpose. It is an exquisite celadon ware with crackled glaze on its lower part of body. Crackle, a network of irregular cracks in the glaze caused by a disagreement in the rate of shrinkage between body and glaze during cooling. From the Song Dynasty and onward crackles seems to have been intentionally produced as decoration. Th ...click for details
