bowl BM-1909-1214.25

Period:Tang dynasty Production date:618-906
Materials:stoneware
Technique:slipped, glazed,

Dimensions:Height: 6.20 centimetres Length: 18.60 centimetres

Description:
Stoneware bowl with dark brown body material; green glaze on upper exterior of bowl; interior has a thick white slip painted with green glaze decoration of plants under a transparent glaze.
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Comments:Rawson 1992:From the Western Han until the late Tang dynasty, painting on ceramics was more or less confined to iron-brown highlight spots on greewares from eastern China. Proper painted ornament first appeared in the late eight or early ninth centuries on vessels made at the Tongguan kilns near Changsha in Hunan province, south China. Tongguan wares are technologically innovative on several counts, the most significant being the established use of underglaze painting. Underglaze painting does not appear to have been developed elsewhere after the demise of the Changsha kilns in the tenth century, despite occurring at the same time at Qionglai in Sichuan province. The painted decoration on earlier ceramics may be beneath, mixed in with, or on top of the glaze; on the late eight- and ninth-century products of the Tongguan and Qionglai kilns, however, it clearly lies beneath the glaze.