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White ware circular box and lid with two phoenixes
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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12th - 13th century (1101 - 1300)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, thrown, with press-moulded and incised decoration under a bluish-white glaze (qingbai ware); unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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3.7 cm (height)
9.6 cm (diameter)
at base 9 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
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formed › moulded › press moulded,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.282
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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. C277
Glossary (2)
glaze, porcelain
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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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porcelain
Ceramic material composed of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar which is fired to a temperature of c.1350-1400⁰c. The resulting ceramic is vitreous, translucent, and white in colour.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Barlow Collection
The box has nearly straight, somewhat tapering sides, a flat base and a shallow domed cover. The cover is moulded in relief with a pair of phoenixes, arranged in yinyang fashion, looking at each other, and completely filling the surface. They are depicted with crests, small wing-like feathers at the neck, spread wings and long tail feathers. The somewhat coarse white body bears a translucent glaze with a faint bluish tinge, which ends above the base, leaves the base free and only thinly covers the inside of the cover. A diagonal stroke has been incised across both parts to indicate proper alignment.
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