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  • White ware funerary jar and lid (oblique)
  • White ware funerary jar and lid (oblique)
  • White ware funerary jar and lid (oblique)
  • White ware funerary jar and lid (oblique)
  • White ware funerary jar and lid (oblique)
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White ware funerary jar and lid

  • loan

Glossary (4)

glaze, luted, porcelain, slip

  • glaze

    Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.

  • luted

    The fusion of parts of ceramics using dilute clay slip.

  • 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.

  • slip

    A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface or for decorative effect.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • The Barlow Collection by the University of Sussex

    The Barlow Collection

    A similar jar without cover, excavated in Anyi county, Jiangxi province, can be dated to 1249.

    The jar is of ovoid form, slightly flared towards the flat base, with a wide, somewhat splayed neck, with an angle at the shoulder where two pairs of tubular lugs are horizontally attached. The stepped cover has a sloping everted rim and a straight knob with two deep grooves around it. The yellowish-beige stoneware is covered with a thinly applied glaze with faint bluish-green tinge, visible mainly in the groove around the shoulder. The glaze was wiped from the rim but covers part of the neck inside, the lowest part of the jar, the base and the underside of the cover are exposed in the yellowish-burnt biscuit, which has fired a deeper orange colour inside the jar.
  • The Barlow Collection by the University of Sussex

    The Barlow Collection

    A similar jar without cover, excavated in Anyi county, Jiangxi province, can be dated to 1249.

    The jar is of ovoid form, slightly flared towards the flat base, with a wide, somewhat splayed neck, with an angle at the shoulder where two pairs of tubular lugs are horizontally attached. The stepped cover has a sloping everted rim and a straight knob with two deep grooves around it. The yellowish-beige stoneware is covered with a thinly applied glaze with faint bluish-green tinge, visible mainly in the groove around the shoulder. The glaze was wiped from the rim but covers part of the neck inside, the lowest part of the jar, the base and the underside of the cover are exposed in the yellowish-burnt biscuit, which has fired a deeper orange colour inside the jar.

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