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Greenware jar
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province (place of creation)
- Date
- 5th century AD (AD 401 - 500)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with green glaze; handles hand-modelled and luted to the jar with slip; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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10.4 cm (height)
8.6 cm (diameter)
at base 5.1 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.374
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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. C374
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
The small jar has an ovoid body with a flat base, a short waisted neck and a thick, wide everted, angular rim, with two horizontal lugs attached to the shoulder. The piece is undecorated and the dark olive-green glaze covers it only halfway, the lower part remaining exposed in the reddish-buff biscuit. On one side, the lower edge of the glaze touched another piece before or during firing. The base has four elongated spur marks.
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