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Associated place

Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-site (place of creation)

Date

4th century AD (AD 301 - 400)
Western Jin Dynasty (AD 265 - 316)
Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 317 - 420)
Six Dynasties Period (AD 221 - 589)

Material and technique

stoneware, with applied and incised decoration under a green glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim

Dimensions

6.1 x 9.2 x 9.2 cm max. (height x width x depth)

Material index

processed material › ceramic › pottery

Technique index

covered › coated,

marked,

decorated

Object type index

sculpture › figure

No. of items

1

Credit line

Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

Accession no.

EA1956.983
Further reading

Tokyo: Uragami Sokyu-Do, July 1992, Animal Farm in Yue Ware, Mitsuru Uragami, ed. (Tokyo: Uragami Sokyu-Do, 1992), pls 125-126 & 133-139

Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 65 on p. 34

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