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White ware high-footed bowloblique

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White ware high-footed bowl

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Jiangxi province (place of creation)
    Date
    10th - 11th century (AD 901 - 1100)
    Material and technique
    porcelain, with bluish-white glaze (qingbai ware); glazed base; glazed rim
    Dimensions
    5.4 cm (height)
    9.2 cm (diameter)
    at foot 3.9 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › porcelain
    Technique index
    covered › coated › glazed,
    glazed
    Object type index
    container › vessel › bowl
    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    EAX.1403

  • Further reading

    Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 236 on p. 72

Glossary (2)

glaze, porcelain

  • glaze

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

  • 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

    • currently in research collection

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