Room 38 | China from AD 800 gallery
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Greenware dish with peony decoration
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- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Shaanxi province › Yaozhou kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, probably moulded, with incised and combed decoration under a green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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5 cm (height)
19.6 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.108
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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. C81
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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Second floor | Room 38 | China from 800
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Second floor | Room 38 | China from 800
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The Barlow Collection
Fragmentary pieces similar to this bowl, from the Yaozhou kiln site near Tongchuan in Shaanxi province, are published in Songdai Yaozhou yaozhi/The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period, Beijing, 1998, pl.LI, fig.5 and pl.LII, figs 1 and 2.
The bowl is rounded on the inside, conical on the outside, with a distinct ridge halfway up and a slightly flared rim. The outside shows six indentations, faintly visible on the inside. The straight foot is shallow, the base recessed. The inside is carved with a large-scale peony spray with a lush bloom among elegant foliage, neatly arranged to cover a circular area, leaving a broad band around the rim undecorated. The bloom has combed detail, the leaves have incised veins. The outside is simply decorated with radiating strokes around the upper half, ending at a horizontal incised line below the rim. Base and foot are glazed but the footring is unglazed, showing a brown-burnt biscuit with adhering grit.
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