Karlbeck, Ovar, ‘Early Yüeh Ware’, Oriental Art, 2/1, (1949), pl. 1
Vickers, Michael, Oliver Impey, and James Allan, From Silver to Ceramic: The Potter's Debt to Metalwork in the Graeco-Roman, Oriental and Islamic Worlds (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1986), pl. 44
Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 4 on p. 15
ding, glaze, stoneware
A Chinese bronze tripod ritual cooking vessel. Also a type of white porcelain from Northern China.
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
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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