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Greenware vase with ribbed decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Longquan kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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13th century (1201 - 1300)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with green celadon glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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17 cm (height)
9.5 cm (diameter)
at foot 7.6 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.
- LI1301.126.1
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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. C100
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
Bottles of various sizes, related to the present pair, have been recovered from a hoard in Suining county Sichuan province, presumably buried around the time the Mongols invaded the area, in 1234, and before the town fell, in 1242.
The small pear-shaped vases have a low depressed body on a wide straight foot, and a tall slender neck, slightly tapering towards the wide everted, incurved rim. The neck has two raised ribs like bamboo nodes, and the body three further raised ribs around the shoulder. The matt blue-green glaze is thickly applied, leaving only the footring free. The stoneware has turned a reddish brown where it was exposed in the firing, and is grey where it was covered with glaze.
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