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Greenware basin with fish, phoenix, and riding figures
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- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
- Date
- 3rd century AD (AD 201 - 300)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, with impressed, applied and incised decoration under a green glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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9.4 cm (height)
35 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.928
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Further reading
Karlbeck, Orvar, ‘Proto-Porcelain and Yüeh Ware’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1949-1950, 25, (1949-1950), p. 40, pls. 13a-13b
Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 13 on p. 21
Glossary (3)
glaze, phoenix, 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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phoenix
Mythical bird known as hōō in Japan. The Islamic tradition appropriated the far-eastern iconography of the phoenix and used it to represent another mythical bird, the simurgh.
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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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