Alms bowl with floral decoration

Details

• Title

  Alms bowl with floral decoration

• Associated place

  Asia › China › Shaanxi province › Yaozhou kilns (place of creation)

• Date

  Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with brown and white slip-painted decoration; glazed rim

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  slipped;

  covered › coated › painted

• Object type

  container › vessel › bowl › alms-bowl

• Dimensions

  8 cm (height)
  15 cm (diameter)
  at base 7 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1956.3102

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