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History of the chinese tang tri colour ceramics

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Tri-color Tang Pottery

Tri-colored Tang (Tangsancai) refers to the tri-colored glazed pottery of the Tang Dynasty (618-907A.D.), a painted earthenware which appeared in the wake of celadon. As yellow, green and white were normally used, it is called "tri-colored" although some pieces are also in two or four colors. Developed on the basis of the green and brown glazed pottery of the Han Dynasty, it represented a peak in the development of Chinese ceramics and was already well-known in the world in its time.

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