Cizhou type bowl with calligraphy

Details

• Title

  Cizhou type bowl with calligraphy

• Associated place

  Asia › China › Cizhou kiln-sites (place of creation)

• Date

  12th century (1101 - 1200)
  Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with brown and white slip-painted decoration under a transparent glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  slipped;

  covered › coated › painted;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › vessel › bowl

• Dimensions

  4.2 cm (height)
  18.3 cm (diameter)
  at foot 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.

  EA1956.1313

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