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Greenware jar with moulded decoration
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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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2nd half of the 6th century AD
Six Dynasties Period (AD 221 - 589)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, with green glaze; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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38.3 cm (height)
26 cm max. (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.964
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 May 2006-23 December 2008, Treasures: Antiquities, Eastern Art, Coins, and Casts: Exhibition Guide, Rune Frederiksen, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2006), no. 207 on p. 74, illus. p. 74
Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 109 on p. 43
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Silk. A Cultural History (London: The British Museum Press, 2004), pp 68-69, fig. 43 on p. 69
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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