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Dish in the style of Guan ware
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1911 - 1949
- Material and technique
- porcelain, thrown, with bluish-grey crackled glaze
- Dimensions
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2.2 cm (height)
16.8 cm (diameter)
at foot 5.2 cm (diameter)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.130
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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. C104
Glossary (2)
glaze, porcelain
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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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porcelain
Ceramic material composed of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar which is fired to a temperature of c.1350-1400⁰c. The resulting ceramic is vitreous, translucent, and white 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 dish is imitating guan (‘official’) ware of the Southern Song period (1127–1279), but the shape, with its distinct indentations and deep lobes, is unknown from that period, as is this placement of spur marks outside the footring. The glaze is too glossy, with the wrong texture, and the wide-meshed crackle uncharacteristic of early wares.
The piece has rounded, slightly angled sides, widely flaring towards the rim with is cut into five deep lobes. The outside is strongly indented with five radiating grooves which start at the shallow, narrow foot and reach right up to the lip. The piece is covered with a bluish-grey glossy glaze with a wide-meshed crackle, which has discoloured to a yellowish brown at the rim and on the underside, where it adheres in a thinner layer. The footring is unglazed, showing a dark brown body, and surrounded by a ring of seven evenly spaced dot-shaped spur marks.
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