Room 10 | China 3000 BC-AD 800 gallery
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Greenware ritual food vessel, or ding
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
- Date
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4th century BC (400 - 301 BC)
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Warring States Period (475 - 221 BC)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, with green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
- 19.3 x 20.5 x 17.1 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.529
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Further reading
Karlbeck, Ovar, ‘Early Yüeh Ware’, Oriental Art, 2/1, (1949), pl. 1
Vickers, Michael, Oliver Impey, and James Allan, From Silver to Ceramic: The Potter's Debt to Metalwork in the Graeco-Roman, Oriental and Islamic Worlds (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1986), pl. 44
Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 4 on p. 15
Glossary (3)
ding, glaze, stoneware
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ding
A Chinese bronze tripod ritual cooking vessel. Also a type of white porcelain from Northern China.
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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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Ground floor | Room 10 | China to 800
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Ground floor | Room 10 | China to 800
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