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Greenware circular box and lid with floral design
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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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10th century (AD 901 - 1000)
Five Dynasties Period (AD 907 - 960)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, with incised decoration under a green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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with lid 5 cm (height)
without lid 3.6 cm (height)
12.2 cm (diameter)
at foot 8.9 cm (diameter)
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container › box › toilet-box › cosmetic-box,container › box › seal-red-box
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.1215
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Further reading
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. 36
Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 152 on pp. 56-57
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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