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Dish in the style of Ding ware with floral decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1911 - 1939
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with press-moulded decoration under a white glaze
- Dimensions
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2.7 cm (height)
16 cm (diameter)
at foot 5.5 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
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formed › moulded › press moulded,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.246
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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. C234
Glossary (3)
Ding, glaze, stoneware
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Ding
A Chinese bronze tripod ritual cooking vessel. Also a type of white porcelain from Northern China.
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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 piece is imitating a Ding dish of the Northern Song period (AD 960–1127), but the stoneware is very light in weight, the glaze thick and opaque, and the design deeply carved in relief – features not known from the originals.
The shallow curved dish flares slightly towards the rim and rests on a low and thin foot. The inside is carved with a lotus spray with a small bloom and large leaf, with a band around the rim left plain, as is the outside. The piece is covered with a thick matt, opaque cream-white glaze, except for the rim, where the off-white stoneware is visible.
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