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Room 10 | China 3000 BC-AD 800 gallery

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Greenware stem cup with lotus petals

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaZhejiang province Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
    Date
    late 9th century - early 10th century AD
    Material and technique
    stoneware, with green glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
    Dimensions
    6.5 cm (height)
    9 cm (diameter)
    at foot 5.7 cm (diameter)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.1205
  • Further reading

    Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 144 on p. 55

Glossary (2)

glaze, stoneware

  • glaze

    Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.

  • 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

    • Ground floor | Room 10 | China to 800

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