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White ware jar and lid
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Henan province (place of creation)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with transparent glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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with lid 12.2 cm (height)
without lid 11.5 cm (height)
12.5 cm (diameter)
at foot 9.5 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.37
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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. C1
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 distinctive shape, with the sunken cover, is characteristic of the Sui dynasty, as is this fine white stoneware. The Barlow Collection also holds a contemporary tomb figure of a female attendant holding a jar of this form, [LI1301.396.1 and LI1301.396.2].
The piece is finely potted, of broad pear shape, resting on a wide, slightly tapering, nearly solid foot with broad shallow footring. The slender neck is opening into an angled, cup-shaped mouth with flared rim. The cover is made in corresponding shape, fitting over the rim of the jar, with a pointed knob in the sunken centre. The cream-coloured stoneware bears a transparent glaze with a greenish tinge and a dense crackle, which leaves the underside of the cover and lowest part of the sides, including the base of the jar unglazed, where the smooth body is visible.
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