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Greenware dish with two fish
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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 - 14th century (1201 - 1400)
Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with carved and sprig-moulded decoration under a yellow glaze
- Dimensions
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4.3 cm (height)
13.4 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.198
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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. C187
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 glaze colour on this piece is the result of misfiring, probably due to oxidization in the kiln. The desired ideal would have been a bluish green, derived from reduction-firing. The best colours were achieved by the Longquan kilns in the Southern Song period (1127–1279); in the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), firing was on the whole less well controlled.
The deep rounded dish has a flat everted rim and a tapering foot. Two small sprig-moulded fish are applied in the centre and the outside is carved with slender lotus petals in relief. The glaze has misfired to an intense yellowish brown, and the unglazed footring is of similar colour.
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