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Girl in army uniform with a bucket and mop

  • Description

    Throughout the Cultural Revolution the porcelain kilns at Jingdezhen, renowned as the imperial kilns since about AD 1400, continued to produce good quality porcelain. Much of the output used the forms and decoration of revolutionary imagery.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    1970s
    Material and technique
    porcelain figure, with polychrome glazes; wooden mop handle
    Dimensions
    20.8 x 10.5 x 7 cm max. (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    organicvegetal wood
    Technique index
    coveredcoated glazed,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    2
    Credit line
    Presented by Nigel Wade, 2010.
    Accession no.
    EA2010.78

Glossary

porcelain

  • 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

    • currently in research collection

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