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Greenware jar with four handles
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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6th - 7th century AD (AD 501 - 700)
Sui Dynasty (AD 589 - 618)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with hand-modelled handles luted to the jar with slip under a green glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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17.7 cm (height)
14.4 cm (diameter)
at foot 6.7 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.388
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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. C387
Glossary (4)
glaze, luted, slip, 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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luted
The fusion of parts of ceramics using dilute clay slip.
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slip
A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface 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 ovoid jar rests on a solid splayed foot, has a raised rib at the luting line halfway down the sides, and four double-stranded loop handles attached on the shoulder, around a short straight mouth. The light buff stoneware is covered with a glossy yellowish-green glaze, which stops in the lower half of the body, leaving the lowest part free.
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