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Greenware burial figure of chicken in a coop
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 3rd century - 4th century AD
- Material and technique
- stoneware, probably hand-modelled, and with incised decoration under a green glaze
- Dimensions
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4.7 x 8.2 x 8.8 cm max.
Model size (height x width x depth)
figurine 2.2 x 2.7 x 1.1 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.934
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Further reading
Tokyo: Uragami Sokyu-Do, July 1992, Animal Farm in Yue Ware, Mitsuru Uragami, ed. (Tokyo: Uragami Sokyu-Do, 1992), pls 60-76
Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 53 on p. 31
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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Ground floor | Room 10 | China to 800
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Ground floor | Room 10 | China to 800
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