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Greenware jar in the form of a double fishoblique

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  • Greenware jar in the form of a double fish (oblique)
  • Greenware jar in the form of a double fish (oblique)
  • Greenware jar in the form of a double fish (oblique)
  • Greenware jar in the form of a double fish (side)
  • Greenware jar in the form of a double fish (top)
  • Greenware jar in the form of a double fish (bottom)
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Greenware jar in the form of a double fish

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-site (place of creation)
    Date
    late 9th century - early 10th century AD
    Material and technique
    stoneware, with incised decoration under a green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
    Dimensions
    9.7 x 7.6 x 6.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    at mouth 3.2 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › pottery
    Technique index
    marked,
    decorated,
    covered › coated
    Object type index
    container › vessel
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.288

  • Further reading

    Tregear, Mary, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), no. 193 on p. 64

Location

    • Ground floor | Room 10 | China to 800

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