Room 38 | China from AD 800 gallery
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Black ware vase with plum blossom decoration
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- Associated place
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Asia › China › Jiangxi province › Yonghe district › Ji'an › Jizhou kiln-sites (place of creation)
- Date
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12th - 13th century (1101 - 1300)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with reserve decoration against a black iron glaze, painted decoration, and sgraffito cut through the glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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20 cm (height)
12.6 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.207.2
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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. C196
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.
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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
Of tall ovoid form, with splayed neck and thick rounded rim flange, the vases have a low, unevenly formed footring and a convex base. The pieces are covered with a thick, opaque dark brown glaze of matt sheen. On each side, a prunus branch has been reserved in the yellowish biscuit, the blossoms with stamens painted on in brown, and the thin offshoots at the end of the branches carved into the glaze in sgraffito technique. The footrings are left unglazed.
A pear-shaped vase of similar type and design, recovered from a tomb dated in accordance with 1199, is published in Liu Tao, Song Liao Jin jinian ciqi/Dated Ceramics of the Song, Liao and Jin Periods, Beijing, 2004, col.pl.50.
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