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Tripod incense burner with green glaze
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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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12th - 13th century (1101 - 1300)
Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127)
Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with green glaze; legs hand-modelled and luted to the incense burner with slip; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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8.1 cm (height)
10 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.253
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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. C244
Glossary (4)
glaze, luted, slip, 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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luted
The fusion of parts of ceramics using dilute clay slip.
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slip
A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface 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
The small vessel has a globular body, wide neck with thick everted rim and three bulbous, pointed feet. A thick dark olive-green glaze with a very smooth texture, matt sheen and large-scale crackle covers the piece, ending inside the neck, leaving most of the inside free, but fully covering the underside of the piece except for the tips of the legs. Small accidental glaze gaps appear in some places. On the inside, the biscuit has fired a reddish-brown, at the legs is appears glossy and yellowish-brown.
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