Room 38 | China from AD 800 gallery
Explore key developments in the history and culture of China, from the arts and crafts of the Song Dynasty up to the present day.
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Black ware tea bowl stuck in its firing saggar
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Fujian province › Jian kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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12th century (1101 - 1200)
Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)
- Material and technique
- stoneware bowl, thrown, with brown and black iron glazes; clay saggar
- Dimensions
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saggar 12.7 cm (height)
bowl 5 cm approx. (height)
saggar 18 cm (diameter)
bowl 12.6 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › vessel › bowl › drinking-bowl › tea-bowl,container › vessel › drinking-vessel › drinking-bowl › tea-bowl,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by M. J. V. Lloyd, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.1580
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Further reading
Wood, Nigel, ‘The manufacture of high-temperature ceramics in north and south China in the Song dynasty’, Principal wares of the Song period from a private collection (London: Eskenazi, 2015), p. 12, p. 13 fig. 5
Wood, Nigel, Chinese Glazes: Their Origins, Chemistry and Recreation (London: A & C Black and University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 1999), p. 147, illus. p.147
Glossary (2)
stoneware, waster
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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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waster
Mis-fired pottery of no commercial value that would probably have been discarded by the potter.
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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