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Room 38 | China from AD 800 gallery

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Greenware jar with lotus leavesoblique

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  • Greenware jar with lotus leaves (oblique)
  • Greenware jar with lotus leaves (side)
  • Greenware jar with lotus leaves (top)
  • Greenware jar with lotus leaves (bottom)
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Greenware jar with lotus leaves

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
    Date
    10th century (AD 901 - 1000)
    Material and technique
    stoneware, with carved decoration under a green glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
    Dimensions
    22 cm (height)
    21.6 cm (diameter)
    at foot 9.4 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware
    Technique index
    carved,
    formed › carved,
    covered › coated › glazed,
    glazed
    Object type index
    container › vessel › vase
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.1214

  • Further reading

    Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 189 on p. 63

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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