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Greenware bowl with lotus petals
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Longquan kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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13th century (1201 - 1300)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with green celadon glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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7.2 cm (height)
16.9 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.193
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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. C182
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
Lotus bowls are among the most common Longquan wares and were made over a long period of time, starting in the Southern Song (1127–1279) and continuing into the Yuan (AD 1279–1368). Earlier examples, like the present piece, have wider petals and a finer, blue-green glaze. For a later example, compare the bowl, [LI1301.101], also in the Barlow Collection. Pieces related to the present bowl have been recovered from a hoard in Suining county, Sichuan province, presumably buried around the time the Mongols invaded the area, in 1234, and before the town fell, in 1242.
The bowl has rounded conical sides with a flat centre, and a narrow tapering foot. The outside is carved with broad overlapping lotus petals in relief. The near-white body is covered with a fine translucent blue-green glaze with an attractive ice-like crackle, leaving the footring exposed in the yellowish-brown biscuit.
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