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Greenware bowl with lotus petals
- 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)
Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, probably moulded, with carved decoration under a green celadon glaze; gold lacquer repair with gold leaf decoration; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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4.2 cm (height)
9.8 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.149
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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. C125
Glossary (3)
glaze, lacquer, 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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lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is indigenous to Eastern China. It is applied to wood as a varnish or for decorative effect. In India and the Middle East, lacquer is made from the deposit of the lac insect.
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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 bowl has rounded sides with a widely flaring rim, and a straight narrow foot with a pointed base. The outside is carved in relief with narrow lotus petals, the body is near-white, the glaze of beautiful light blue-green colour with a large-scale crackle, the unglazed footring brick red. The inside has polished-down traces of grit, the rim has a gold lacquer repair decorated with tiny square flakes of gold leaf in a different tone.
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