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
White ware bowl
- on display
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Jiangxi province › Jingdezhen › Jingdezhen kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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13th century (1201 - 1300)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, thrown, with bluish-white glaze (qingbai ware); glazed base, unglazed rim
- Dimensions
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7.3 cm (height)
14.3 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.57
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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. C23
Glossary (2)
glaze, porcelain
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glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
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porcelain
Ceramic material composed of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar which is fired to a temperature of c.1350-1400⁰c. The resulting ceramic is vitreous, translucent, and white 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
A related bowl excavated in Wuyuan county, Jiangxi province, can be dated to 1211.
The deeply rounded bowl stands on a thin, nearly straight foot. It is undecorated and glazed in a blue-tinged transparent glaze. The glaze leaves the rim free, but covers the foot, as the piece was fired upside down. It may once have had a cover.
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