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Bowl with blue glaze and purple splashes
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- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Henan province › Jun kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with opaque blue glaze, and purple copper splash glaze decoration; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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4.4 cm (height)
8.5 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.172
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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. C158
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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Small Jun ware bowls of this form are called ‘bubble bowls’, since the globular form and glossy glaze can create the optical illusion of a soap bubble spanning the rim.
The well-rounded globular bowl tapers towards the straight foot and has a somewhat pointed base. The opaque light milky-blue glaze fades to a translucent mushroom brown at the rim and ends around the foot in an uneven line, leaving base and much of the foot exposed in the brown-burnt biscuit. The inside is decorated with three uneven splashes of purple glaze which are surrounded by a darker blue halo, with two similar splashes decorating the outside.
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