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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: shard]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One approximately circular blue glazed fragment of the bottom of a ceramic bowl. Circular base of bowl is unglazed.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/471">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: model]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One glazed green-brown earthenware miniature model of metal ingots stacked in a shallow dish. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/467">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One unglazed light tan earthenware figure presented standing erect on a small round base. Figure is depicted with legs together and both arms bent with the hands stacked across his front. Figure wears a knee-length robe with out-turned collar out turned and a hat which extends over the ears and back of neck to the shoulders.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Carried from China to Canterbury Museum by Margaret Garland, who visited China in 1952 to attend the Asia-Pacific Peace Conference.<br />
]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/401">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One glazed white ceramic figurine of a horse and rider. Rider&#039;s face and costume and horse&#039;s physiognomy bridle and saddle detailed in black red and green. Glaze exhibits crazing.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/399">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: vessel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One glazed plain white Xing ware ewer in the form of an elongated globe. Vessel is surmounted by a narrow neck and out-turned lip and gradually tapers to a shallow narrow base. One side of the ewer presents a slender handle joining the shoulder to the lower neck. On the opposing side is a short cylindrical spout.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Gifted by Alley to Canterbury Museum in 1983. Carried to New Zealand by Professor Zhu.]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/398">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One glazed <em>sancai</em> ware figure of a camel standing on a shallow rectangular unglazed base. Camel bears saddle bags moulded in the form of fearsome masks. Dominant glaze colours are brown white green-ochre and blue.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[This facsimilie, made from original Tang Dynasty moulds, was delivered to Canterbury Museum in 1975 by Prof. Henry Field (1903-1991) of the University of Canterbury. Alley obtained it from Ministry of Culture potters at Luoyang, Henan.]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/397">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One unglazed brown and tan earthenware figurine of a crouching animal mounted on a thin slightly warped and approximately rectangular base.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/396">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: oil Lamp]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One glazed ceramic oil lamp in the form of a bowl with a broad rim and a flat narrow base. Lamp inner surface glazed blue and creamy white; underside glazed red-brown and yellow. Small handle attached to the rim.<br />
]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/395">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: incense burner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One small globular glazed blue-grey incense burner surmounted by a short neck and wide mouth and supported by three stubby equidistantly-spaced feet attached to its underside. Lower half of vessel exterior presents moulded rib pattern.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/394">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: vessel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One globular glazed red-brown Ding ware vessel in the form of a pomegranate with a moulded leaf attached and a hole at the top.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/393">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: incense burner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One small circular glazed blue-grey incense burner. Presents a short wide body narrowing slightly above the shoulders to a thick neck and wide opening. Wide flat base is supported by three short equidistantly-placed feet. Exterior base and feet are unglazed. Rim of incense burner chipped in a few places.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/390">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Six ceramic figurines four of which are depicted standing one seated and one lying prone. Five of the figures are dressed in flowing robes whilst that lying prone is swaddled in cloth. Each of the figurines is glazed white with hair and facial features detailed in dark brown or black. Costumes are detailed in black orange-red olive green and ochre.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/354">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: vessel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One elongated circular glazed dark brown ceramic vase. Vessel presents narrow mouth over high shoulders and a body that gradually tapers to a short narrow slightly out-flaring base. Upper third of vase body presents moulded relief design of a ship and fishes.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/352">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: lid]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One circular earthenware <em>boshanlu</em> lid. Obverse coated in red-brown glaze with stylised designs of running human and animal figures moulded in relief. Reverse unglazed.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/346">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One unglazed black and tan earthenware figurine in the form of a pig.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/345">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One unglazed tan-brown earthenware figure in the form of a horse&#039;s head. Fragment of a larger piece. Horse&#039;s head presented in rearing posture with ears pricked and mouth open. Details of head and bridle moulded in relief.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Gifted by Alley in during a visit to New Zealand in 1937.]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/344">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One glazed <em>sancai</em> ware figure in the form of a double-humped camel standing on a shallow rectangular unglazed base. Camel bears saddle bags moulded in the form of fearsome masks. Dominant glaze colours are brown white green-ochre and blue.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/340">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: bowl]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One circular glazed green orange and white Jun ware bowl with a shallow narrow base. Bowl interior and exterior present loosely executed botanical designs with a bird motif on the interior base. Exterior base of bowl is unglazed.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/339">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One glazed white pale green and light ochre ceramic figurine. The figure is presented standing in flowing robes and bearing a relatively large vase-shaped vessel. Facial features are detailed in traces of black. The back of the figurine presents a small hole beneath its left arm.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/338">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: bowl]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One circular glazed blue-white ceramic bowl with a slightly flaring lip and a shallow narrow base. Bowl interior embellished with blue circumferential lines immediately beneath rim and around the base. Interior base presents circular blue serpentine design of fishes.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/337">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: bowl]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One circular glazed blue and white ceramic bowl with a shallow base enclosed inside a wicker case with a metal rim. Bowl interior presents a botanical motif on the base and a band of botanical patterning just beneath upper rim. Middle interior of bowl exhibits moulded dot or leaf pattern. Upper section of wicker exterior covering exhibits blue and cream band of geometric patterning. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/336">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: bowl]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One plain circular ceramic bowl with a shallow base. Glazed light blue. Undecorated apart from darker blue interior and exterior circumferential lines and a Chinese character on the interior base. Underside of base encrusted with grit.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/335">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: vessel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One small glazed Cizhou ware vessel in the form of a flattened globe with a short narrow neck flaring out at the top and supported by a shallow narrow base. Exterior presents serpentine pattern in dark brown glaze on a lighter grey-brown glazed ground.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/334">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: vessel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One glazed olive-brown ceramic vessel in the form of a flattened globe. Vessel presents a slightly flaring lip and short narrow neck surmounting wide shoulders and a body that tapers to a flat narrow unglazed base. Glazed exterior exhibits crazing. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/333">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: tile]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One unglazed grey-brown earthenware tile. Obverse presents schematised kneeling human figure modelled in high relief. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Given by Alley in 1957 to poet R.A.K. Mason (1905-1971) to carry to Canterbury Museum.<br />
]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/292">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One glazed blue-white Fujian <em>blanc de Chine</em> female figure. Figure is depicted standing on a cuboid pedestal with hands placed together at waist height.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/291">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: plate]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One shallow circular copper-red glaze plate with a shallow wide base. Rim and underside of base are glazed white. Underside of base exhibits mark of Emperor Jiaqing (1796-1820).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Part of collection Alley gave to Canterbury Museum during Museum director Roger Duff&#039;s trip to China in 1956.<br />
]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/284">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: shard]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One blue-purple glazed ceramic shard ground into a teardrop shape with a scalloped edge. Shard inset in black base. Reverse presents inscription.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/282">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: vessel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One circular glazed red-brown ceramic vessel. Presents a wide mouth and short slightly out-turned neck surmounting high shoulders and a body that gradually tapers to a flat narrow base. Vessel exterior exhibits pattern of horizontal striations.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Bought by Alley in Beijing, and in 1957 given to poet R.A.K. Mason (1905-1971) to carry to Canterbury Museum.<br />
]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/280">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: vessel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One circular glazed grey-green ceramic vase with a short narrow neck and out-turned lip surmounting broad high shoulders that taper gradually to a slightly out-flaring base. Upper shoulders of vase exterior exhibit a <em>ruyi</em> or fungus pattern with black and white linear embellishments. Mid-section of vase exterior presents a broad band of serpentine botanical decoration in white outline. Lower part of vase exterior presents a semi-geometric freize again with black and white linear embellishments.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[ Bought by Alley in Beijing, and in 1957 given to poet R.A.K. Mason (1905-1971) to carry to Canterbury Museum.<br />
]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/279">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: Vase]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One tall circular glazed light grey ceramic vase with a narrow neck and flaring lip surmounting broad high shoulders that taper gradually to a slightly out-turned base. Vessel exterior body exhibits designs in dark grey colouration. Vase shoulders and lower two fifths of its body present bands of linear geometric patterns. Vase mid-section presents a serpentine botanical pattern.<br />
<br />
]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Bought by Alley in Beijing, and in 1957 given to poet R.A.K. Mason (1905-1971) to carry to Canterbury Museum.<br />
]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/274">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Brass: <em>daigou</em>]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One oval brass <em>daigou</em> made from reshaped jun ware shards set into a brass fitting. Obverse comprises a central red shard ground into a rectangular shape flanked by two blue-purple shards ground into semi-circular shapes.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/252">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: tile]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One approximately semi-circular unglazed grey earthenware tile. Obverse moulded in high relief in the form of a stylised cat mask.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Given by Alley in 1957 to poet R.A.K. Mason (1905-1971) to carry to Canterbury Museum.<br />
]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/228">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: figure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One unglazed tan-brown earthenware figurine of a seated drummer. Figure depicted grinning jovially with upper teeth visible through open mouth. Figure nestles drum under its left arm supporting this on bent left knee. Drummer&#039;s right arm and right leg are extended and the right hand presents a small hole. Traces of blue grey mauve and red pigmentation visible on figure&#039;s body and drum. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Replica in earthenware of Han Dynasty original from excavations of a tomb in Sichuan Province, gifted by Alley in 1964.]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/126">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: vessel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One glazed green-grey earthenware <em>hu </em>vessel. Globular body tapers towards a flat base and extends into a long neck flaring slightly at the top. Series of incised transverse lines around neck shoulder and waist. Shoulder patterns link two animal heads moulded in shallow relief on opposing sides of vessel. Animal heads feature prominent nose rings.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Received in 1954 from the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery, by exchange. ]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/110">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ceramic: vessel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[One unglazed dark brown earthenware vessel. Globular body surmounted by a narrow cylindrical neck and out-turned rim and lips. Body exhibits transverse linear features.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Discovered at Heishuiguo, Zhangye, Gansu Province. Given by Alley to H.M. Sievwright, who carried it from Shandan to Canterbury Museum. In 1947, Sievwright, from Tekapo, travelled to Shandan with 25 Corriedale sheep, gifted to the Shandan Bailie School by New Zealand farmers. ]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description></rdf:RDF>
