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White ware bowl with dragons
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1911 - 1963
- Material and technique
- porcelain, thrown, with incised decoration under a transparent glaze
- Dimensions
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7.8 cm (height)
18.5 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.72
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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. C41
Glossary (2)
glaze, porcelain
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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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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
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Barlow Collection
This bowl is imitating anhua, the ‘hidden decoration’ developed in the early Ming period (1368–1644), but the technique used is not correct, nor has the remarkable effect of the originals been achieved, where the design becomes properly visible only when the piece is held against the light.
The wide rounded bowl has a slightly recessed centre inside and a flared rim, the foot is straight. The inside is decorated in relief with two pairs of dragons with lingzhi-shaped clouds between and another cloud in the centre. The decoration around the sides has relief outlines and incised detail to imitate anhua. The outside is undecorated except for a band of incised petal panels above the foot.
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