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Ewer with a spout in the form of a phoenix
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Henan province (place of creation)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, with moulded decoration under a sancai glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
- 32.5 x 15.5 x 12 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Professor A. H. Sayce, 1933.
- Accession no.
- EAX.3958
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Further reading
Wood, N., and others, ‘A Technological Examination of Ninth-Tenth Century AD Abbasid Blue-and-White Ware from Iraq, and its Comparisons with Eighth Century AD Chinese Blue-and-White Sancai Ware’, Archaeometry, 49/4, (2007), pp. 670, 676 & 677, illus. p. 671 fig. 2(c)
Glossary (3)
earthenware, glaze, phoenix
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earthenware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.
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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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phoenix
Mythical bird known as hōō in Japan. The Islamic tradition appropriated the far-eastern iconography of the phoenix and used it to represent another mythical bird, the simurgh.
Location
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First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads
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First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads
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