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Black ware vase with streak decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1911 - 1968
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with black and brown iron glazes
- Dimensions
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25 cm (height)
17.3 cm (diameter)
at foot 8.5 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.228
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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. C217
Glossary
stoneware
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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 heavily potted vase has exaggerated proportions and although its variegated brown glazes were probably intended to copy a Northern Song (AD 960–1127) ware, no obvious prototype appears to exist.
The wide bulging body is of inverted bulb shape, with a raised shoulder collar, narrow trumpet-shaped ‘mock’ foot with low, broad footring and pointed base, and extremely waisted neck with a narrow opening and a wide flaring rim. The piece is covered with a glossy black glaze with variegated tones of persimmon colour, especially at the rim, body and foot, the black of the neck having run down on one side, forming a thick streak. The footring and base are mostly unglazed and show the buff body.
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