Bowl on three legs
On displayDetails
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Title
Bowl on three legs
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Associated place
Henan province (place of creation) -
Date
1st half of the 8th century AD
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907) -
Material and technique
earthenware, with sancai glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12.7 cm (height)
17.5 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 10 | China to AD 800 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1956.3112
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
glaze
Further reading
Wood, N., and others, ‘A Technological Examination of Ninth-Tenth Century AD Abbasid Blue-and-White Ware from Iraq, and its Comparisons with Eighth Century AD Chinese Blue-and-White Sancai Ware’, Archaeometry, 49/4, (2007), pp. 670, 676 & 677, illus. p. 671 fig. 2(g)
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