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
White ware dish with floral decoration
- loan
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Literature notes
The rounded dish rests on a short straight foot. The inside is moulded in low relief with a very dense floral design, showing a central panel of waterplants, with a lotus flower and leaf flanked by stems of arrow-head and surrounded by four clumps of lotus alternating with reeds and small five-petalled flowers, all surrounded by a key-fret border and a broad band with a dense brocade-like peony design, consisting of fully opened blooms, buds and leaves, enclosed by a double line at the rim. The outside is plain. The piece is covered with a thin ivory-tinged glaze, which on the outside has run towards the rim forming darker ‘tears’, since the piece was fired upside down. Both rim and footring are unglazed, showing the off-white body. -
Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Ding kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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12th century (1101 - 1200)
Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with press-moulded decoration under a white glaze; glazed base; unglazed rim
- Dimensions
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5.2 cm (height)
10.3 cm (width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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formed › moulded › press moulded,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.155
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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. C132
Glossary (2)
glaze, stoneware
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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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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
The rounded dish rests on a short straight foot. The inside is moulded in low relief with a very dense floral design, showing a central panel of waterplants, with a lotus flower and leaf flanked by stems of arrow-head and surrounded by four clumps of lotus alternating with reeds and small five-petalled flowers, all surrounded by a key-fret border and a broad band with a dense brocade-like peony design, consisting of fully opened blooms, buds and leaves, enclosed by a double line at the rim. The outside is plain. The piece is covered with a thin ivory-tinged glaze, which on the outside has run towards the rim forming darker ‘tears’, since the piece was fired upside down. Both rim and footring are unglazed, showing the off-white body.
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