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Bowl with blue splash decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Henan province (Gongxian kilns) (place of creation)
- Date
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8th - 9th century AD (AD 701 - 900)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, covered in white slip and with underglaze painting in cobalt-blue; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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6.1 cm (height)
17 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.
- LI1301.63
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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. C29
Glossary (3)
earthenware, slip, underglaze painting
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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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slip
A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface or for decorative effect.
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underglaze painting
Painting applied to ceramic material before a transparent, or monochrome or coloured glaze for Islamic objects, is applied. The technique was initially developed in China.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Barlow Collection
The wide rounded bowl has a flared rim and a splayed foot with broad straight-cut footring with bevelled edges, and with a hollowed-out groove around it on the outside. The light pinkish-beige body appears to have been fired at a fairly high temperature and seems to approach stoneware. It has been covered with a white slip and a transparent glaze with a bluish-green tinge, decorated with overall cobalt-blue splashes. The lower half of the sides and the underside are free of glaze and largely free of slip.
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