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Greenware bowl with ducks amid wavestop

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  • Greenware bowl with ducks amid waves (top)
  • Greenware bowl with ducks amid waves (oblique)
  • Greenware bowl with ducks amid waves (oblique)
  • Greenware bowl with ducks amid waves (oblique)
  • Greenware bowl with ducks amid waves (oblique)
  • Greenware bowl with ducks amid waves (side)
  • Greenware bowl with ducks amid waves (bottom)
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Greenware bowl with ducks amid waves

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Yaozhou kilns (place of creation)
    Date
    2nd half of the 11th century - early 12th century
    Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127)
    Material and technique
    stoneware, thrown, with incised and combed decoration under a green glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
    Dimensions
    4.3 cm (height)
    16.6 cm (diameter)
    at foot 4.4 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    stoneware
    Technique index
    thrown,
    incised,
    incised,
    glazed,
    glazed
    Object type index
    bowl
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Professor A. H. Sayce, 1935.
    Accession no.
    EAX.1265

  • Further reading

    Wood, Nigel, Chinese Glazes: Their Origins, Chemistry and Recreation (London: A & C Black and University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 1999), p. 115, illus. p. 115

Glossary (2)

glaze, stoneware

Location

    • Second floor | Room 38 | China from 800

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