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Greenware jar with diaper decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
- Date
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3rd century AD (AD 201 - 300)
Western Jin Dynasty (AD 265 - 316)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with incised and roulette decoration under a green glaze; handles hand-modelled and luted to the jar with slip; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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10.7 cm (height)
14.7 cm (diameter)
at base 6.2 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.248
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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. C237
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
Similar jars from tombs datable to AD 287 and 298, respectively, have been excavated in Zhejiang province.
The rounded jar has a concave base and a short neck with horizontal grooves. Two vertical lugs are applied on the shoulder, over a rouletted diaper border. The light yellowish-green glaze is somewhat mottled and stops in the lower third of the sides. It leaves the inside and underside free, but ran down to the base in several thin strands, now degraded. The biscuit has fired a reddish tone.
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