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Changsha ware bowl in the form of an alms bowl
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hunan province (Changsha kilns) (place of creation)
- Date
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8th - 9th century AD (AD 701 - 900)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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11 cm (height)
19 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.341
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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. C341
Glossary (2)
glaze, 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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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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Publications online
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The Barlow Collection
Related bowls and dishes were made in southeastern China in the 5th and 6th century AD, see Zhongguo taoci quanji [Complete series on Chinese ceramics], vol.4, Shanghai, 2000, pls 200 and 217, but the present piece appears to be a later version from the Changsha kilns.
The globular bowl is shaped like an almsbowl, with flat base and incurved rim. It is undecorated and covered overall with a yellowish-green glaze which has slightly degraded and discoloured through burial in red earth. It was fired standing on five small bar-shaped spurs, with another piece placed inside it, raised on four dot-shaped spurs, all of which have left marks in the glaze.
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