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Black ware bowl with russet iron splashes
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1911 - 1968
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with black and russet iron glazes
- Dimensions
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6.5 cm (height)
16.3 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.250
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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. C241
Glossary
stoneware
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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 bowl, which imitates a Song dynasty (AD 960–1279) tea bowl, has the wrong proportions, its foot being far too small. Its glaze is too glossy, and although the brown splashes on Song tea bowls come in a large variety of shapes and sizes, large patches such as these are not normally seen.
With conical, slightly convex sides, the bowl rests on a very small foot with a tiny pointed base. The highly glossy, dark blackish-brown glaze is decorated with uneven patches of rust brown, the base is glazed.
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