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Details
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Period
- Song dynasty 960 - 1279 → China
- Date
- 0960-1279
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware with crackled lavender glaze
- Dimensions
- 3.8 x 18.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Kenneth Myer 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 582.1993
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Jun ware
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About
Jun wares, produced close to the Northern Song dynasty capital of Kaifeng, tend to have a grey stoneware body. The distinctive features are their simple and formal shapes and the rich lavender-blue colour derived from iron oxide in the glaze and reduction firing. Later in the Song dynasty and more particularly in the Yuan period, copper was added to the glaze to produce contrasting splashes of red.
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Provenance
Kenneth Myer AC, DSC, pre 1992, Australia, bequeathed to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Dec 1993.
Bluett & Sons Ltd, pre 1992, London/England, offered for sale.