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Cup with blue glaze
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1911 - 1968
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with opaque blue glaze
- Dimensions
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5 cm (height)
8.8 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.
- LI1301.260
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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. C252
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
This cup copies Song dynasty Jun ware, but does not conform to this ware in terms of its thick potting, shape of foot, glaze colour and texture.
The small cup is thickly potted, especially near the foot, of rounded globular form with incurved rim, and has a splayed foot with deeply hollowed-out base. The glaze has a dull, matt greyish-blue appearance, with an overall crackle, fading to grey at the rim, and ending above the foot, leaving foot and base free. Part of foot and sides is covered with only a thin layer of greenish-brown glaze. The biscuit has fired a strong brown tone on the outside of the foot, and a greyish-buff colour underneath.
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