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Bowl with blue and purple glazes
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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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bowl 12th - 13th century (1101 - 1300)
Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234)
refired 1920s - 1930s
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with opaque blue glaze, and purple copper splash glaze decoration; base, with green glaze; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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9.2 cm (height)
20 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.239
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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. C227
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
Jun wares of this type are not known with overall purple glazes and the piece must have been refired in modern times, with copper added to the original light blue glaze of a typical Jun ware bowl, such as [LI1301.355] in the Barlow Collection.
Heavily potted, the rounded bowl has a slightly inturned rim and a low, narrow, thick foot. The inside and outside are fully covered with an intense deep purple-coloured glaze, with three faint streaks of blue running down the inside and further bluish markings overall. The base bears a green glaze and the foot was partly left free of glaze and has fired a yellowish-brown.
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