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Incense burner with three feet
- loan
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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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11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)
Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with opaque blue glaze, and purple copper splash glaze decoration; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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6.1 cm (height)
7.1 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.233
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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. C221
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
The small vessel has a depressed globular body, narrow neck and everted rim with slightly raised edge and stands on three bulging pointed legs. A circular area at the base is somewhat recessed and shows a small firing crack. The opaque milky-blue glaze fades to an almost colourless translucent appearance at the edges of the rim, around the shoulder and on the legs, and adheres in a thick layer of intense colour inside the neck. The outside is decorated with two bright purplish-pink splashes. The inside is unglazed and shows the yellowish-brown biscuit, the tips of the legs are broken off and show that under the glaze the body fired grey.
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