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White ware octagonal dish
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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13th century (1201 - 1300)
Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, thrown, with bluish-white glaze (qingbai ware)
- Dimensions
- 1.1 x 15.7 x 15.7 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.332
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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. C331
Glossary (2)
glaze, porcelain
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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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porcelain
Ceramic material composed of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar which is fired to a temperature of c.1350-1400⁰c. The resulting ceramic is vitreous, translucent, and white in colour.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Barlow Collection
The octagonal dish may have been thrown on the wheel and then moulded, the inside is stepped with an octagonal centre, low everted sides and a flat rim with raised lip, the outside has a circular base and octagonal sides with eight radiating raised ribs. The piece is very light in weight, the whitish glaze is degraded and leaves only the rim free, as the piece was fired upside down, standing on the rim. The piece is undecorated.
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