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Greenware cup
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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6th century AD (AD 501 - 600)
Qi Period (AD 479 - 501)
Sui Dynasty (AD 589 - 618)
Six Dynasties Period (AD 221 - 589)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with green glazed; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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7 cm (height)
9 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.324
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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. C323
Glossary
stoneware
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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 shape of this cup, with a solid foot, reminiscent of turned wood, is characteristic of the early stoneware production of north China, which began only in the late 6th century AD, some two thousand years after it had started in the South.
The deep U-shaped cup is heavily potted, resting on a small splayed, solid foot with chamfered edge and slightly concave base. The near-white stoneware body bears a crackled, light yellowish-green glaze, which leaves the lowest part free. The sides show horizontal markings from potting, and the inside has three spur marks.
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