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White ware vase with floral and geometric decoration
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Fujian province (place of creation)
- Date
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18th century (1701 - 1800)
Qing Dynasty (1645 - 1911)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with incised decoration under a white glaze; handles hand-modelled and luted to the vase with slip; copper rim
- Dimensions
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31.2 cm (height)
22 cm (diameter)
at foot 12 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.153
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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. C130
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 vase has a wide globular body, tall neck and a tapering foot with very low footring. Two ring handles held by lozenge-shaped motifs are applied in relief on either side. The neck is incised with overlapping upright leaves, the shoulder with a lobed border with scroll motifs, the body with a dense chrysanthemum scroll with larger and smaller blooms, and the foot with a key-fret border with a band of petals and scroll motifs above it. The stoneware body is covered with an opaque cream-coloured glaze, the rim is bound in copper and may originally have been somewhat taller.
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