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The Barlow Collection

A select catalogue of the Barlow collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades by the University of Sussex (published Sussex, 2006).

The Barlow Collection by the University of Sussex

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Black ware tea bowl with 'partidge feather' glazes

  • Literature notes

    This bowl is of particularly high quality, well potted, very finely glazed and with a very attractive colour effect. It copies a rare type of ‘Ding’ ware from Quyang county in Hebei province, which is similarly shaped and glazed but has a cream-white body; see the exhibition catalogue Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., 1996, cat.no.16.

    The conical bowl rests on a straight, nearly solid foot with a broad, shallow footring. The even black glaze shows dense radiating rust-brown splashes, forming a mottled fur pattern. The glaze fades to a transparent brown at the rim and the outside is largely covered with a matt persimmon-coloured glaze with glossy black splashes running down from the rim. The foot and base are unglazed, showing a coarse body of a light buff colour.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (north) (place of creation)
    Date
    11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
    Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127)
    Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234)
    Material and technique
    stoneware, thrown, with black and brown iron glazes; unglazed base; glazed rim
    Dimensions
    4.7 cm (height)
    15.2 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    coveredcoated glazed,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
    Accession no.
    LI1301.286
  • 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. C282

Glossary

stoneware

  • 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

    • Second floor | Room 38 | China from 800

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Publications online

  • The Barlow Collection by the University of Sussex

    The Barlow Collection

    This bowl is of particularly high quality, well potted, very finely glazed and with a very attractive colour effect. It copies a rare type of ‘Ding’ ware from Quyang county in Hebei province, which is similarly shaped and glazed but has a cream-white body; see the exhibition catalogue Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., 1996, cat.no.16.

    The conical bowl rests on a straight, nearly solid foot with a broad, shallow footring. The even black glaze shows dense radiating rust-brown splashes, forming a mottled fur pattern. The glaze fades to a transparent brown at the rim and the outside is largely covered with a matt persimmon-coloured glaze with glossy black splashes running down from the rim. The foot and base are unglazed, showing a coarse body of a light buff colour.
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