Henan Blackware
(China)
Vase
- Location
- Lower Asian gallery
- Further information
Brown-glazed stonewares from the Henan province were part of an extensive ceramic industry that spread throughout northern China during the Song dynasty. They were a popular ware used in most households and not a select quality ware collected by connoisseurs and eulogised in literature. From a technical viewpoint, this vase demonstrates the achievements in kiln control of northern potters around the year 1200. These achievements enabled the creation of appealing, rusty-brown suffused patterns in the black glaze: the result of precipitations of iron oxide in a reducing atmosphere in the kiln.
'Asian Art', AGNSW Collections, 1994, pg. 194.
- Place of origin
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Henan Province,
China
- Period
- China: Song dynasty 960–1279
- Year
- circa 1200
- Media
- Ceramic
- Medium
- stoneware with a black glaze
- Dimensions
- 22.0 x 19.0cm; 4.0cm diam. of rim
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Graham E. Fraser 1993
- Accession number
- 332.1993
