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Greenware lobed bowl
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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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9th - 10th century AD (AD 801 - 1000)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
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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5 cm (height)
9.6 cm max. (diameter)
at foot 5.5 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.314
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Further reading
Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 251 on p. 75
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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Second floor | Room 38 | China from 800
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Second floor | Room 38 | China from 800
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