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Greenware dish with peony decoration
- loan
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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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15th century (1401 - 1500)
Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with carved decoration under a green crackled glaze
- Dimensions
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8.2 cm (height)
42.5 cm (diameter)
at foot 22 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.305
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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. C302
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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The Barlow Collection
The wide rounded dish is very heavily potted, with a thick tapering foot. The centre inside has slightly sagged. The inner sides are deeply carved with a large-scale peony scroll, the centre appears to be plain, but the design may be obscured by the strongly crazed dull yellowish-green glaze. The outside is undecorated, the footring is glazed, the base has a wide uneven unglazed ring which has fired a brick-red.
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