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Black ware bowl with russet iron spots
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with black and brown iron glazes; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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5.4 cm (height)
12 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.325
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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. C324
Glossary
stoneware
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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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Publications online
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The Barlow Collection
Bowls of similar type have been discovered at the Cizhou kiln site at Guantai in Ci county, Hebei province; see Guantai Cizhou yaozhi/The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, col.pl.XXIX, fig.3, and pl.LXV, fig.1.
The bowl has conical, slightly rounded sides and a flared rim. The straight foot is nearly solid, with an unevenly cut, shallow footring. The piece is covered on the inside and around the rim with a double layer of glaze, which has fired a deep black and is decorated with rust-brown spots, and with a single layer of glaze on the outside, which has fired brown, with an accidental black streak running down one side. The lowest part is unglazed, the light yellowish-brown body hidden by a dark brown dressing.
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