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Greenware dish with lotus flowers and fish
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
- Date
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9th century AD (AD 801 - 900)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with incised decoration under a green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
- 2.4 x 13.2 x 13.2 cm (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.206
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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. C195
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 small dish is of square shape, slightly concave and with rounded sides and indented corners. The low foot is also of squared rounded form. The piece is heavily potted, the inside incised with a pair of fish circling around each other, surrounded by four lotus plants with a large bloom on each side and a leaf in each corner. The reverse is plain, the pale yellowish-green glaze shows some crazing inside and fully covers the piece. It adheres in a thinner layer on the footring which shows eight uneven spurmarks.
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