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Black ware bowl with 'oil spot' glazes
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1911 - 1968
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with black and brown iron glazes
- Dimensions
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3.9 cm (height)
11.8 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.140
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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. C115
Glossary
stoneware
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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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The Barlow Collection
The bowl imitates a Song dynasty (AD 960–1279) piece with an ‘oil spot’ glaze, but the glaze and shape of the foot are untypical of Song pieces.
The thick-walled bowl has low curved sides with a small domed centre, and a thick rounded rim; the straight foot is nearly solid, with an uneven shallow footring. The black glaze has an overall pattern of small brown dots of uneven size. On one side near the rim there is an uneven patch where the glaze was damaged before firing. The lowest part, foot and base are unglazed, the biscuit of buff colour.
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