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Black ware meiping, or plum blossom, vasefront

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  • Black ware meiping, or plum blossom, vase (oblique)
  • Black ware meiping, or plum blossom, vase (oblique)
  • Black ware meiping, or plum blossom, vase (oblique)
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Black ware meiping, or plum blossom, vase

  • loan

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (north) (place of creation)
    Date
    11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
    Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)
    Material and technique
    stoneware, thrown, with brown iron glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
    Dimensions
    22.2 cm (height)
    13.3 cm (diameter)
    at base 8 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware
    Technique index
    thrown,
    glazed,
    covered › coated › glazed
    Object type index
    container › vessel › vase
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
    Accession no.
    LI1301.344

  • 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. C344

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

    • currently in research collection

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  • The Barlow Collection by the University of Sussex

    The Barlow Collection

    The vase is fairly thinly potted, with sloping, angled shoulder, tapering sides, splayed foot, straight narrow neck and everted rim. The buff stoneware is covered with a yellowish-brown glaze which leaves the foot, base and a narrow band above the foot unglazed.

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