FAH393H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Belitung Shipwreck, Kaolinite, Chinese Ceramics
11 May 2020
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Semi-fluid coloured clay used either for coating a pot or decorating it before glazing: a metallic sheen on the surface of a glaze used for its decorative effect. The belitung shipwreck (826 ce: a discovery from the maritime silk road, a 9th century arab dhow with chinese tang export goods heading from china to abbasid. In hull, surrounded by soft materials so most will arrive safely have to be stacked tightly: ship has to be heavy to stay in the water, changsha bowls, china, hunan province, 850. Iraq and iran shaped vase: chinese aesthetic based top but body is not. Chinese: tang whitewares: pearl cups like the moon , shiny white surfaces, new shapes, hard compact body, primary material is kaolin clay (porcelain, high temperature kilns. Literary account of a gift of high-quality white chinese ceramics sent via the northeast of iran to the abbasid caliph in baghdad (land silk road)
