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White ware vase with floral decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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14th century (1301 - 1400)
Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, individual sections thrown, luted, and with impressed decoration under a bluish-white glaze (qingbai ware)
- Dimensions
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20 cm (height)
10.7 cm (diameter)
at foot 7.6 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.298
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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. C294
Glossary (3)
glaze, luted, 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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luted
The fusion of parts of ceramics using dilute clay slip.
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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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The Barlow Collection
The piece is very lightly potted, with a wide pear-shaped body, tall slender neck with an angled, everted rim, and a tall foot with ogee-shaped profile. The horizontal looting lines are clearly visible, the design is impressed and shows patterns of diamond diaper above the widest part and of halved florets below, enclosed between fluted bands at the shoulder and top of the foot. The thin, insubstantial body is of cream-coloured stoneware, the glaze has a greenish tinge, especially in the recesses of the design. Most of the neck inside and the lowest part and underside of the foot were left unglazed.
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