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Black ware jar with russet iron glaze
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1911 - 1968
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with russet iron glaze
- Dimensions
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11 cm (height)
13 cm (diameter)
8.6 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.
- LI1301.109
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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. C82
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
The small jar has an unusual shape, an uncommon body colour and rare colour effects of the glaze, as well as an oddly shaped foot and may represent a modern reproduction, vaguely based on a Song dynasty (AD 960–1279) model.
The squat jar tapers towards an almost solid, tapering foot with extremely low footring and has a wide mouth with a thick rolled rim. A dark brown glaze covers the inside of the jar, and a persimmon-coloured one the outside, in places turning an amber-brown and stopping well above the foot. The exposed body is of purplish-brown colour, the base shows three raised parallel lines (like the character san, ‘three’).
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