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White ware jar with four animal paws
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province (place of creation)
- Date
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10th - 11th century (AD 901 - 1100)
Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, covered in white slip, with incised and impressed decoration under a white glaze; feet, hand-modelled and luted with slip to the jar; unglazed base; unglazed rim
- Dimensions
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7 cm (height)
10.1 cm (diameter)
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- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.337
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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. C337
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 straight sides, a sloping shoulder with a short splayed neck, and a flat base. Four bands of clay are applied round the sides, joined to four legs shaped as animal paws. The legs have incised lines indicating ruffled skin and incisions indicating claws, the applied bands above are impressed with a diaper design. Two incised lines encircle the shoulder. The beige-coloured stoneware bears a white slip and a matt white glaze, the glaze leaving base and legs free, the slip ending higher up. The rim was also left unglazed, since the piece probably once had a cover.
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