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Cizhou ware bowl with lotus decoration
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Cizhou kiln-sites (place of creation)
- Date
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12th century (1101 - 1200)
Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, covered in white slip, and with incised, combed and sgraffito decoration cut through the transparent glaze; bowl cut down; glazed base; copper rim
- Dimensions
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6 cm (height)
19 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.214
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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. C203
Glossary (3)
glaze, slip, 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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slip
A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface 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
The bowl is cut down, lacking 1 or 2 cm at the rim, and is now bound in copper. The design would originally have been encircled by a plain white band.
The piece is heavily potted, with rounded conical sides and a splayed, straight-cut foot. The inside is carved through the white slip with two lotus blooms, two leaves and some foliate motifs, all on a combed background and enclosed by a horizontal line at the rim. The outside is plain, the yellowish beige stoneware is exposed at the lowest part, foot and base. The centre shows a ring of radiating spur marks suggesting that the piece was fired in a stack. There is an accidental unglazed patch below the rim outside.
A similar piece from the Cizhou kiln site at Guantai in Handan county, Hebei province, is published in the exhibition catalogue Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980-81, fig.76).
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