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Tripod dish with wild goose in flight
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Henan province (Gongxian kiln-sites) (place of creation)
- Date
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8th century AD (AD 701 - 800)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, thrown, with impressed decoration under green, yellow, and cobalt-blue transparent glazes; feet hand-modelled and luted to the dish with slip; unglazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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6.8 cm (height)
28.8 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.131
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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. C106
Glossary (3)
earthenware, luted, slip
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earthenware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.
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luted
The fusion of parts of ceramics using dilute clay slip.
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slip
A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface or for decorative effect.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Barlow Collection
The dish has low rounded sides with a flared rim and three bulging stylized animal legs resting on ‘paws’. The inside is impressed with a large rosette with a central roundel containing a wild goose in flight among three cloud motifs, surrounded by spiralling lotus flowers and cloud motifs. The design is covered in green, yellow, cobalt-blue and transparent glazes, the rest of the dish has a transparent glaze, which is largely degraded through burial, and the underside was left in the biscuit.
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