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Figure of a cockerel
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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1st - 2nd century AD (AD 1 - 200)
Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, moulded and luted together, pierced, painted white, and with traces of red pigment; rockwork base, pierced
- Dimensions
- 24.7 x 19 x 11 cm (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.424
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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. S29
Glossary (2)
earthenware, luted
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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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luted
The fusion of parts of ceramics using dilute clay slip.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Barlow Collection
Figures such as this were originally naturalistically painted in coloured pigments; compare a figure of a cock from the mausoleum of the Jingdi Emperor (r. 188–141 BC) of the Han dynasty near Xi’an in Shaanxi province, which was completed in the year 126 BC; see Han Yangling Bowuyuan/Han Yangling Museum, Beijing, 2006, pls 35 and 132. The present figure is unusual in having a rockwork base.
The bird is naturalistically modelled, depicted standing on a creviced rockwork base, moulded in two vertical halves and hollow inside. It has a pointed beak and circular eyes, the wattle and crest are seperately attached, the feathers at the wings and tail are indicated by moulding, and at the back by incising. The grey pottery body shows remains of a white coating and red pigments. The rockwork pedestal has a recessed base pierced with a hole, and another hole is pierced into the back of the bird.
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