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Greenware baluster jar and lid
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Longquan kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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14th century (1301 - 1400)
Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with incised and brown iron splash glaze decoration under a green glaze
- Dimensions
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6.4 cm (height)
7.5 cm (diameter)
at foot 4.9 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › vessel › jar › baluster jar
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.70
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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. C38
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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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Barlow Collection
A small jar of this type without cover has been recovered from a ship wrecked off the coast of Korea in 1323.
The small baluster jar has wide rounded shoulders, and tapers towards the short neck and the slightly flared foot which has a prominent chamfered edge, and a pointed base. The shallow domed cover has an everted wavy rim with four notches. The jar has horizontal incised lines around the middle and is decorated with three iron-brown splashes, the cover with three matching splashes on the rim and a fourth in the centre. The olive-green glaze leaves the underside of the cover, rim and footring of the jar exposed in the brick-red biscuit, but under the glaze the body is off-white; the cover was fired in place and removed by force, leaving traces on both rims.
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