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White ware bowl and lid with lotus petal decoration
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Ding kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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10th - 11th century (AD 901 - 1100)
Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with incised decoration under a white glaze; unglazed rim; glazed base
- Dimensions
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with lid 6.3 cm (height)
lid 7.9 cm (diameter)
bowl 7.6 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.91
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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. C62
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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The Barlow Collection
The small U-shaped bowl has a low straight foot, the domed cover has an everted rim and a small stalk-like knob. The bowl is carved with overlapping lotus petals on the outside, the cover is matchingly decorated with radiating petals around the knob. Both pieces are made of off-white stoneware, covered with an ivory-coloured glaze of smooth texture, which has pooled to a yellowish glassy layer on the rim of the cover. The bowl has an unglazed patch inside, an unglazed rim and a largely unglazed foot which has grit adhering; the rim which holds the cover in place is also free of glaze.
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