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Black ware jar with loop handles
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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7th century AD (AD 601 - 700)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with impressed decoration under a brown iron glaze; handles hand-modelled and luted to the jar with slip; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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12.5 cm (height)
14.7 cm (diameter)
at foot 7.2 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.141
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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. C116
Glossary (4)
glaze, luted, slip, 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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luted
The fusion of parts of ceramics using dilute clay slip.
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slip
A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface 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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The Barlow Collection
The small jar has a wide rounded shoulder, tapering to a splayed solid foot with chamfered edge. The low waisted neck has a flared rim, and two double-stranded loop handles are attached on the shoulder. The upper part of the sides is textured with a diaper pattern of rouletted diagonal strokes, and the piece is glazed in an olive-brown except for the lowest part of the sides and the flat base. The glaze adheres unevenly leaving a spotty surface, and is partly degraded through burial. The biscuit has a yellowish-buff colour.
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