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White ware bowl with three boys among foliage
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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13th century (1201 - 1300)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, thrown, with incised and carved decoration under a bluish-white glaze (qingbai ware); unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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7.1 cm (height)
13.3 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.134
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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. C109
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 conical bowl has steep sides, slightly flared at the rim, and a tall narrow foot with a more shallow footring. The inside is incised with a central formal floret with spiralling petals surrounded by three boys, depicted as if crawling among densely incised foliage, leaving only a narrow band at the rim plain. The outside is deeply carved with narrow overlapping spiralling petals, again leaving the rim area free. The translucent glaze has a faint blue tinge where it adheres in a thicker layer, the base and part of the footring are free of glaze and have burnt a light brown.
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