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Bowl with marbled decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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7th - 8th century AD (AD 601 - 800)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, hand-modelled, kneaded, and with transparent glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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4.4 cm (height)
10.2 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › vessel › pot › burial-pot
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.45
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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. C9
Glossary (2)
earthenware, glaze
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earthenware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.
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glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Barlow Collection
The shallow bowl has curved sides, a flared rim and a splayed foot. It is made of beige-coloured and reddish-brown clays kneaded together, but the foot is made of brown clay only and appears to have been seperately added. The lowest part of the sides, where the foot was joined, are also covered with plain brown clay. The piece is glazed in a translucent honey-coloured tone, except for the base; the glaze has pooled to a glassy patch inside the bowl.
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