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Tripod dish with marbled decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Henan province (Gongxian kilns) (place of creation)
- Date
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7th - 8th century AD (AD 601 - 800)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, kneaded and with a transparent glaze; feet, hand-modelled and luted to the dish with slip; unglazed base; glazed rim;
- Dimensions
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2.6 cm (height)
13.5 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.312
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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. C309a
Glossary (4)
earthenware, glaze, luted, slip
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earthenware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.
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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.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Barlow Collection
For wares such as this, clays of two different colours were kneaded together.
The dish is of shallow rounded form, the everted rim has a sharp edge on the inside and a raised lip, and the piece is supported on three short stud-shaped legs, which are attached at an angle. It is made of a beige-coloured and a reddish-brown clay, kneaded together to form a marbled pattern that is arranged in concentric bands. The inside, outer sides and patches around the legs are covered with a transparent, yellow-tinged glaze, but the underside has been left free of glaze.
Many fragments of similar marbled clay have been discovered at the Gongxian kiln sites; see Huangye sancai yao/Three-colour Glazed Pottery Kilns of the Tang Dynasty at Huangye, Beijing, 2000, passim.
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