Xing ware
(China)
- Title
- Small dish
- Place of origin
-
Hebei Province →
China
- Cultural origin
- Neiqiu
- Period
- Tang dynasty 618 - 907 → China
- Year
- 9th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- white stoneware with overslip glaze
- Dimensions
-
4.0 x 13.0cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Graham E. Fraser 1988
- Accession number
- 518.1988
- Location
- Upper Asian gallery
- Further information
Often known as the Samarra type owing to exported wares discovered in some quantities at the important early Islamic site of Samarra on the Euphrates. Xing wares were produced in the northern province of Hebei and are characterised by a white body, thick modelling and a white slip covered with a clear glaze. It is a relatively high-fired ware and thus approaches a true porcelain quality.
Compare:
'The Baur Collection' Ayers, no. A9. Vol.1;
'Sekai Toji Zenshu' Vol.9, plate no. 30;
'Tang Pottery and Porcelain' by M.Medley, pg. 83, no.77a and 77b,
'Chinese ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection' Bo Gyllensvard, cat.no. 319Asian Art Dept., AGNSW, November 1988.
- Bibliography (2)
-
The golden age of Chinese art 1966, 1966, 128 (illus.), 171. plate no. 102 'White glazed bowl'
'Export Ceramics', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 133 (colour illus.).
