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 vase and lid with floral decoration
- loan
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Literature notes
The vase is the lower part of a cut-down pear-shaped vase, originally with a tall flaring neck, and therefore rests on an unusually heavy, somewhat splayed foot. Two pairs of parallel lines are incised around the middle and another line near the present rim. The blue-tinged glaze leaves the inside of the vessel and the underside of the footring exposed in the off-white biscuit, since originally, the inside would not have been seen. The domed cover is more thinly potted, with an everted rim and a tiny arched knob and bears a quickly sketched lotus scroll incised with a two-pronged instrument and with combed detail. The glaze is paler in tone and the biscuit finer, visible underneath the rim. The cover is earlier in date than the vase. -
Details
- Associated place
- Date
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lid 12th century (1101 - 1200)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
vase 14th century (1301 - 1400)
Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)
- Material and technique
- porcelain vase, thrown, with incised decoration under a bluish-white glaze (qingbai ware); glazed base; glazed rim; porcelain lid, with incised, combed, and hand-modelled decoration under a bluish-white glaze (qingbai ware); glazed rim
- Dimensions
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3.9 cm (height)
8.2 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.317
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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. C313
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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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Barlow Collection
The vase is the lower part of a cut-down pear-shaped vase, originally with a tall flaring neck, and therefore rests on an unusually heavy, somewhat splayed foot. Two pairs of parallel lines are incised around the middle and another line near the present rim. The blue-tinged glaze leaves the inside of the vessel and the underside of the footring exposed in the off-white biscuit, since originally, the inside would not have been seen. The domed cover is more thinly potted, with an everted rim and a tiny arched knob and bears a quickly sketched lotus scroll incised with a two-pronged instrument and with combed detail. The glaze is paler in tone and the biscuit finer, visible underneath the rim. The cover is earlier in date than the vase.
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