Room 38 | China from AD 800 gallery
Explore key developments in the history and culture of China, from the arts and crafts of the Song Dynasty up to the present day.
Galleries : 538 objects
Black ware tea bowl with 'partridge feather' glazes
- on display
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province (place of creation)
- Date
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12th - 13th century (1101 - 1300)
Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)
Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with black and brown iron glazes; unglazed base, with ink inscription; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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4.9 cm (height)
12.4 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › vessel › bowl › drinking-bowl › tea-bowl,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.331
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Further reading
University of Sussex, and Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Barlow Collection, supervised by Regina Krahl, Maurice Howard, and Aiden Leeves (Sussex: University of Sussex, 2006), no. C330
Glossary
stoneware
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stoneware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1200-1300⁰c and is often buff or grey in colour.
Location
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Second floor | Room 38 | China from 800
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Second floor | Room 38 | China from 800
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The Barlow Collection
The bowl has conical sides, widely everted towards the flared rim, and a straight-cut, nearly solid foot with a shallow, uneven footring. The footring shows the light buff-coloured biscuit, while the inside of the bowl is covered with a black glaze with large rust-brown splashes. The outside is almost completely rust-brown with only small areas of black around the rim. The base bears an illegible inscription of two Chinese characters, written in ink.
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