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Water pot in the style of Guan ware
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Jiangxi province › Jingdezhen › Jingdezhen kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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18th - 19th century (1701 - 1900)
Qing Dynasty (1645 - 1911)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, coloured with iron, thrown, with iron filings rubbed in to a grey crackled glaze
- Dimensions
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5.9 cm (height)
6.2 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › vessel › water-vessel › water-pot
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.180
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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. C168
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
Although made of porcelain, the body of this piece has been coloured with iron to appear brown, in imitation of crackled stonewares made by the guan (‘official’) kilns at Hangzhou in the Southern Song period (1127–1279).
The piece has slightly rounded sides with a concave base, a wide everted shoulder collar and a straight neck, somewhat tapering towards the rim. The thick light grey glaze has a prominent dark-stained crackle. The glaze leaves the base free and pulls away at the collar, the glaze gaps revealing a dark brown porcelain body.
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