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Greenware jar with loop handlesside

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Greenware jar with loop handles

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
    Date
    9th - 10th century AD (AD 801 - 1000)
    Material and technique
    stoneware, with modelled handles under a green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
    Dimensions
    11.7 cm (height)
    8 cm (diameter)
    at base 5.1 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware
    Technique index
    formed › modelled,
    covered › coated › glazed,
    glazed
    Object type index
    container › vessel › jar
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.325

  • Further reading

    Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 194 on p. 64

Glossary (2)

glaze, stoneware

  • glaze

    Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.

  • 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

    • currently in research collection

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