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Greenware bowl with musk mallow decoration

  • loan

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.

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The Barlow Collection by the University of Sussex

    The Barlow Collection

    This piece has an extremely fine and tactile glaze, although it is misfired to a yellowish olive tone due to oxidization, instead of the bluish green derived from firing in a reducing kiln atmosphere.

    The bowl has slightly rounded conical sides and a tapering foot with very low footring. The inside is decorated by moulding with a flower-head on the flat centre and flowering musk mallow around the sides, the outside is plain. The whole bowl is covered with an extremely smooth olive-green glaze, and shows three white patches from firing supports on the base.

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