Henan Blackware
(China)
- Title
- Vase
- Place of origin
-
Henan Province →
China
- Period
- Song dynasty 960 - 1279 → China
- Year
- circa 1200
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware with a black glaze
- Dimensions
-
22.0 x 19.0cm; 4.0cm diam. of rim
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Graham E. Fraser 1993
- Accession number
- 332.1993
- Location
- Lower Asian gallery
- Further information
Brown-glazed stonewares from the Henan province were part of an extensive ceramic industry that spread throughout northern China during the Song dynasty. They were a popular ware used in most households and not a select quality ware collected by connoisseurs and eulogised in literature. From a technical viewpoint, this vase demonstrates the achievements in kiln control of northern potters around the year 1200. These achievements enabled the creation of appealing, rusty-brown suffused patterns in the black glaze: the result of precipitations of iron oxide in a reducing atmosphere in the kiln.
'Asian Art', AGNSW Collections, 1994, pg. 194.
- Bibliography (2)
-
Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 194 (colour illus.).
'Early Ceramics', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 103 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (1)
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Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994.
