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Greenware spittoon with square mouth

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaZhejiang province Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
    Date
    10th century (AD 901 - 1000)
    Material and technique
    stoneware, thrown, with hand-modelled lip, and with a green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
    Dimensions
    11.2 cm (height)
    at mouth 15.3 cm max. (width)
    12 cm (diameter)
    at base 7.3 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    coveredcoated glazed,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.289
  • Further reading

    Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 163 on pp. 58-59

Glossary (2)

glaze, stoneware

  • glaze

    Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.

  • 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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