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Bowl with blue glaze and purple splashes
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Henan province › Jun kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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1920s - 1930s
Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)
1920s - 1930s
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with opaque blue glaze, and purple copper splash glaze decoration
- Dimensions
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9.8 cm (height)
22.5 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.203
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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. C192
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
In its shape and manufacture, this piece is a typical Jun ware bowl of the Yuan dynasty, which would originally have been plain blue. The dramatic purple-and-blue colour effect is not known from that period. To refire plain blue bowls with added copper in order to increase their value was a not uncommon practice of the 1920s and 1930s.
The bowl has rounded conical sides, slightly turned inwards at the rim, and rests on a thick, straight foot. The outside and base are covered with an opaque, foamy, milky-blue glaze. The inside is of copper-red colour overall, with uneven spots with a light blue halo. On the outside, the copper has run over in two places, to which a third red splash has been added. The copper was added in a later re-firing process. The biscuit at the foot has fired a dark blackish-brown.
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