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Bowl with flange in the form of a crescent
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Henan province › Jun kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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12th - 13th century (1101 - 1300)
Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with opaque blue glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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7.2 cm (height)
max. 20.3 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.119
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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. C92
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
This piece follows a foreign metal shape, supposedly made to be suspended from the saddle.
The strongly potted, well-rounded bowl rests on a small flat base and has a horizontal crescent-shaped flange on one side below the rim, originally with a ring handle underneath, that is now broken off. The piece is fully covered with an opaque, light-blue milky glaze, which turns a translucent buff colour at the rims, where it runs thin. The base shows three prominent spur marks from the firing supports. The glaze is slightly discoloured through burial.
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