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Greenware bowl with lotus petals in the style of Guan ware
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1911 - 1968
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with carved decoration under a green crackled glaze
- Dimensions
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5.3 cm (height)
13.9 cm (diameter)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.226
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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. C215
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
With its crackled green glaze, this bowl is intended to copy a piece of guan (‘official’) ware of the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279) from Zhejiang province. Yet, its body colour is not correct for pieces from this area, its glaze is too dark and unpleasantly muddy, and its profile overly emphasizes the flare of the rim.
The rounded bowl has a widely flaring rim and a very low tapering foot, the outside is moulded with a rank of lotus petals, obscured under the thick opaque, dark green crackled glaze, which fully covers the piece, except for the footring. The footring shows a dark brown biscuit, which also shines through the glaze at the rim.
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