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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Zhejiang Province
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China
- Period
- Southern Song 1127 - 1279 → Song dynasty 960 - 1279 → China
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware with crackled glaze
- Dimensions
- 2.7 x 10.8 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr J.H. Myrtle 1998
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 60.1998
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Guan ware
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About
'Guan' means 'official' and imperial Guan wares were made for the newly established Southern Song court after the style of wares made previously for the northern court at Kaifeng. Produced at the Guan kilns sited in present-day Zhejiang province, Guan wares, and Guan-type wares made at Longquan kilns, are among the most sumptuous of Song wares. Typically they are thin and dark bodied, but thickly covered with many layers of lustrous greyish-green glaze with a mesh of crackle which has been enhanced by staining.
This piece exemplifies Southern Song taste and would have been among the desk accoutrements of a late Song literati aspiring to pursue a reclusive life of self-cultivation that focused on reading, poetry, painting and calligraphy.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.107.
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Places
Where the work was made
Zhejiang Province
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Oct 2014–13 Mar 2016
Beyond Words: Calligraphic Traditions of Asia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Aug 2016–30 Apr 2017
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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, 107 (colour illus.).
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