Greenware funerary jar with dragon

Details

• Title

  Greenware funerary jar with dragon

• Associated place

  Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Longquan kilns (place of creation)

• Date

  1230 - 1280
  Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with incised decoration under a green celadon glaze; spouts and figures hand-modelled, with incised decoration, and luted to the jar, probably with slip and glaze; unglazed base

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  marked › incised;

  formed › modelled;

  luted;

  slipped;

  glazed

• Object type

  miscellaneous equipment › lid;

  sculpture › figure › figurine;

  religious/ritual equipment › funerary equipment › burial-pot

• Dimensions

  with lid 23 cm (height)
  without lid 18 cm (height)
  with spouts 19 cm (width)
  17 cm (diameter)
  at foot 8.9 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  2

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1956.1273

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