Browse: 10610 objects
Dehua type white ware incense burner
- loan
-
Details
- Associated place
-
Asia › China › Fujian province (place of creation)Asia › China › Fujian province › Dehua kilns (possible place of creation)
- Date
-
16th - 17th century (1501 - 1700)
Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with white glaze; handles hand-modelled and luted to the incense burner with slip
- Dimensions
-
5.7 cm (height)
rim 8.5 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.266
-
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. C261
Glossary (4)
glaze, luted, slip, stoneware
-
glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
-
luted
The fusion of parts of ceramics using dilute clay slip.
-
slip
A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface or for decorative effect.
-
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
-
- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
-
The Barlow Collection
This incense burner was probably made in imitation of contemporary Dehua ware, also from Fujian province, but far superior in material.
The piece has a low rounded body, a nearly straight foot, constricted neck and everted rim with two angular handles on top. The piece is light in weight, made of off-white stoneware and covered with a cream-coloured glaze with an overall fine-meshed crackle. The inside and base are unglazed, the glaze has darker stains.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum