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Greenware funerary jar with dragon and a bird
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Longquan kilns (place of creation)
- Date
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jar 13th century (1201 - 1300)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
lid probably 20th century (1901 - 2000)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with incised and modelled decoration under a green glaze; figurines hand-modelled and luted to the jar with slip; glazed base; unglazed rim
- Dimensions
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with lid 24.5 cm (height)
without lid 19.3 cm (height)
lid 8.6 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › vessel › pot › burial-pot,
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.285
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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. C280
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 tall ovoid jar narrows down to the straight narrow neck in three bulging steps and is supported on a straight foot with low footring. The shoulder is applied with a freely modelled figure of a dragon, its wide open mouth and one claw reaching for a flaming pearl, elaborately sculpted with long antler-like horns, small goatee beard, two tufts of hair behind the head, a serrated spine and each leg with further tufts of hair and four sharp claws. The body is incised with overall scales. The shallow domed cover has a wide everted rim and a bird attached as knob. A fine blue-green glaze covers the jar, but leaves its rim and footring free, where the yellowish-brown biscuit is visible. The cover bears a similar glaze, its underside is unglazed and has fired a bright brick-red.
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