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Greenware jar with four loop-handles

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaZhejiang province Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
    Date
    10th century (AD 901 - 1000)
    Material and technique
    stoneware, with incised decoration under a green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
    Dimensions
    10.6 cm (height)
    9.7 cm (diameter)
    at foot 5.7 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    coveredcoated glazed,
    Object type index
    containervessel jar
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.1206
  • Further reading

    Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 235 on p. 72

Glossary (2)

glaze, stoneware

  • glaze

    Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.

  • 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

    • Second floor | Room 38 | China from 800

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