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Black ware tea bowl with prunus under a crescent moon
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Jiangxi province › Yonghe district › Ji'an › Jizhou kiln-sites (place of creation)
- Date
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12th - 13th century (1101 - 1300)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with brown iron glaze painted decoration on a russet iron glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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4.7 cm (height)
14.5 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › vessel › drinking-vessel › drinking-bowl › tea-bowl,container › vessel › bowl › drinking-bowl › tea-bowl
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.319
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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. C136
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
The wide conical bowl has a very small flat centre inside and an unevenly shaped foot, with a groove around the lowest part of the sides and a low-cut footring. The piece is covered with a glossy dark brown glaze which on the inside has uneven reddish-brown suffusions and is decorated with a flowering branch, painted in simple strokes and dots under a crescent moon which is supported on a cloud. The painted design has turned partly dark brown, partly a café-au-lait colour. The glaze on the outside is suffused with a reddish brown. The base and area around the foot are left in the light buff-coloured biscuit.
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