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Greenware bowl with flower
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 5th - 6th century AD (AD 401 - 600)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with stamped and incised decoration under a green glaze; unglazed base
- Dimensions
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6.5 cm (height)
15.4 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.136
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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. C111
Glossary (2)
glaze, 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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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 globular bowl is supported on a narrow splayed, nearly solid foot with an incised groove in the concave base. The rim is very slightly flared. The inside is decorated with a large flower-head with six incised pointed petals around a circular centre stamped with seven rings. The outside is plain, with an accidental incised line running halfway round the bowl. The grey stoneware body bears a densely crackled, translucent olive-green glaze, which ends above the foot, leaving the foot, base and a small strip above in the biscuit.
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