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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Henan Province
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China
- Period
- Song dynasty 960 - 1279 → China
- Date
- circa 1200
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware with a black glaze
- Dimensions
- 4.0 cm diam. of mouth; 22.0 x 19.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Graham E. Fraser 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 332.1993
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Henan Blackware
Works in the collection
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About
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.
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Places
Where the work was made
Henan Province
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Jackie Menzies, AGNSW Collections, 'Asian Art - India, South-East Asia, China, Tibet, Korea, Japan', pg. 173-228, Sydney, 1994, 194 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Early Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 103 (colour illus.).
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