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Details
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Period
- Song dynasty 960 - 1279 → China
- Date
- 0960-1279
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware with green glaze
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 10.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Laurence G. Harrison 1997
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 381.1997
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Jun ware
Works in the collection
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About
Jun wares, produced close to the capital of Kaifeng, are related to the northern celadons and have a similar grey stoneware body. The distinctive features are their simple and formal shapes and the rich lavender-blue glaze derived from an iron oxide in the glaze and reduction firing. These qualities are well illustrated in these examples. Later in the Song dynasty and more particularly in the Yuan period, copper was added to the glaze to produce contrasting splashes of red.
This tea bowl, serenely beautiful in the simplicity of its form, is treasured for its unusual colour - green, rather than the more typical Jun blue.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.105.
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Aug 1965–12 Sep 1965
The Way We Eat, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Apr 2021–13 Jun 2022
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Early Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 105 (colour illus.).
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