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White ware measuring jar for rice
- on display
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Jiangxi province (place of creation)
- Date
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13th century (1201 - 1300)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, thrown, with painting in brown, and incised decoration under a bluish-white glaze (qingbai ware); partly glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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7.5 cm (height)
10.3 cm (diameter)
at mouth 9.7 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.55
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Further reading
University of Sussex, and Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Barlow Collection, supervised by Regina Krahl, Maurice Howard, and Aiden Leeves (Sussex: University of Sussex, 2006), no. C20
Glossary (2)
glaze, porcelain
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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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porcelain
Ceramic material composed of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar which is fired to a temperature of c.1350-1400⁰c. The resulting ceramic is vitreous, translucent, and white 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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The box has rounded sides, a very low footring, and the cover has a shallow domed top. The top is moulded with a peony spray in relief, with a large bloom surrounded by leaves, the petals and leaves with finely rendered veins. The sides are vertically ribbed, leaving a band at the rims plain. The translucent light blue-tinged glaze ends above the base, the insides of both parts have only a patch of glaze. The off-white body has turned yellowish at the edges of the glaze.
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