The Barlow Collection
A select catalogue of the Barlow collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades by the University of Sussex (published Sussex, 2006).
Publications online: 456 objects
Black ware bowl with stripes
- loan
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Literature notes
Pieces of this type were made by various kilns of north China. A related piece has been found at the main Cizhou site at Guantai in Ci county, Hebei province; see Guantai Cizhou yaozhi/The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, col.pl.XXII, fig.4, but the present piece may have been made elsewhere. Similarly striped bowls have been recovered from a Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) shipwreck in the sea off Liaoning province.
The globular bowl is of wide open shape, slightly inward curved at the rim, the broad, heavy foot is splayed. The centre inside is clearly marked. A glossy black glaze covers the inside and most of the outside, where it stops in an uneven line well above the foot, forming thick drops with attached kiln grit. The lowest part of the sides bears a very thin, light-brown transparent dressing, but the foot and base were left in the buff-coloured biscuit. The base has a firing crack. The inside of the bowl is decorated with thin radiating brown strokes, densely spaced around the sides. The glaze fades at the rim to a transparent layer. -
Details
- Associated place
- Date
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13th - 14th century (1201 - 1400)
Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with black and brown iron glazes
- Dimensions
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8.8 cm (height)
20.5 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.
- LI1301.316
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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. C312
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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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Barlow Collection
Pieces of this type were made by various kilns of north China. A related piece has been found at the main Cizhou site at Guantai in Ci county, Hebei province; see Guantai Cizhou yaozhi/The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, col.pl.XXII, fig.4, but the present piece may have been made elsewhere. Similarly striped bowls have been recovered from a Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) shipwreck in the sea off Liaoning province.
The globular bowl is of wide open shape, slightly inward curved at the rim, the broad, heavy foot is splayed. The centre inside is clearly marked. A glossy black glaze covers the inside and most of the outside, where it stops in an uneven line well above the foot, forming thick drops with attached kiln grit. The lowest part of the sides bears a very thin, light-brown transparent dressing, but the foot and base were left in the buff-coloured biscuit. The base has a firing crack. The inside of the bowl is decorated with thin radiating brown strokes, densely spaced around the sides. The glaze fades at the rim to a transparent layer.
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