Jar
700-800 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
In the Tang dynasty (618-907) daily utensils were usually made of stoneware and goods for burial were made of earthenware. This jar was probably a funerary piece, as lead-glazed vessels could poison the user. The decoration of small rosettes and vertical rows of dots was achieved with the resist method. A resist substance such as wax would allow coloured glazes to adhere to selected parts of the surface of the jar, thus forming the desired pattern.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Earthernware with lead glaze |
| Brief description | globular jar with vertical rows; Cer, China, TANG, LEAD GLAZED; Early China |
| Physical description | with small flowerheads on green ground separated by vertical rows of dots |
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| Style | |
| Gallery label | Jar
China, Tang dynasty, 700-800, with wax-resist decoration
Museum no. C.32-1965, J.G. Maxwell Brownjohn Bequest(2009) |
| Credit line | J.G. Maxwell Brownjohn bequest |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | In the Tang dynasty (618-907) daily utensils were usually made of stoneware and goods for burial were made of earthenware. This jar was probably a funerary piece, as lead-glazed vessels could poison the user. The decoration of small rosettes and vertical rows of dots was achieved with the resist method. A resist substance such as wax would allow coloured glazes to adhere to selected parts of the surface of the jar, thus forming the desired pattern. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.32-1965 |
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| Record created | June 21, 2007 |
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