Room 10 | China 3000 BC-AD 800 gallery
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Greenware burial vessel section in the form of man holding a goat
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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 AD (AD 301 - 400)
Western Jin Dynasty (AD 265 - 316)
Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 317 - 420)
Six Dynasties Period (AD 221 - 589)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, with green glaze
- Dimensions
- 10.8 x 7.5 x 5.4 cm max. (height x width x depth)
- Material index
- Technique index
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container › holder › candle-holder,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.969
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Further reading
Li Huibing, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, xxxi (Beijing: Commercial Press, 1996), pl. 34
Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 59 on pp. 32-33
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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Ground floor | Room 10 | China to 800
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Ground floor | Room 10 | China to 800
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