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Black ware vase with foliated rim
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)
Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with black iron glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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16.7 cm (height)
7.5 cm (diameter)
at base 5.9 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.175
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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. C162
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
A fragment of a similarly shaped black-glazed vase was discovered at the Yaozhou kiln site of Shaanxi province (see Songdai Yaozhou yaozhi/The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period, Beijing, 1998, pl.CXXVI, fig.2), but pieces of this type were also made elsewhere.
The slender vase is elegantly potted, with a wide shoulder tapering to a trumpet-shaped ‘mock’ foot, set off with a ridge, and surmounted by a slender flared neck with wavy down-curved rim. The buff-coloured body bears a highly glossy pitch-black glaze, which turns brown at the ridge, where it is thinner, and leaves the low rounded footring and base free, with grit adhering.
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