Description: National Museum Of History Tiger THREE-COLOR GLAZE TIGER This is a three-color glazed tiger paperweight in like new condition. This beautiful piece of art comes in its original box which is in beautiful condition. See photo gallery for visual reference of items condition as well as that of the box. Please feel free to contact me in regards to any questions concerning the item. Tang Sancai is the artistic essence of the Tang Dynasty in China , with a history of more than 1,000 years . The so-called Tang Sancai refers to the glaze color on the pottery of the Tang Dynasty in China . Later, it was also generally used to refer to the painted pottery of the Tang Dynasty . There are many glaze colors for painted pottery in the Tang Dynasty, such as light yellow, ocher yellow, light green, dark green, sky blue, brown red, eggplant purple, etc., but the three colors are mainly yellow, green, and white (or green, ocher, and blue). , so it is called "three colors". Tang Sancai was not found in ancient documents until the Longhai Railway was built in the late Qing Dynasty . Tang Dynasty tombs were destroyed in Mangshan , Luoyang , and a large number of Tang Sancai pottery was discovered. Antique dealers transported it to Beijing, which attracted the attention of scholars such as Wang Guowei and Luo Zhenyu . The unearthed Tang Sancai was successfully restored, triggering a collection craze [1] . Tang Sancai adopts the secondary firing method. First, white clay is used to make the body. It is bisque-fired at 1000℃-1100℃ in the kiln. After cooling, various glazes are painted on the body and then put into the kiln for glaze firing. Tang Sancai is a kind of low-temperature (850℃-950℃) glazed pottery, which is colored with glazes containing copper (green glaze), iron ( ochre yellow), manganese (purple), cobalt (blue), antimony (light yellow), etc. agent, and add lead and aluminum as flux . Its glaze colors bleed into each other, and with age, some colors change and produce new colors, which has a high level of decorative art. However, due to poor practicality, Tang Sancai was mainly used for burials, that is, underworld vessels and figurines . There are many types of tri-color paintings in the Tang Dynasty, mainly divided into three types: figures, animals and utensils. The characters include civil servants, military generals, ladies, boys, maids, entertainers, barbarians, etc. Animals include horses, camels, cows, sheep, lions, tigers, etc. Utensils include containers, study utensils, indoor utensils, etc. In ancient times, Tang Sancai was rarely used as daily necessities and furnishings. Most of them were used as funerary objects. They were mainly produced and popular in the Central Plains of China and were used by bureaucrats in this area. With the excavation of the tombs of the Tang Dynasty, a large number of Tang Sancai as funerary objects came to light. Tang Sancai funerary objects are mainly divided into utensils, such as bowls, pots, plates, houses, etc.; and figurines, such as ladies, officials, barbarians, musicians, warriors, kings, horses, camels, etc. The artistic shapes of Tang Sancai reflect the social style and characteristics of the times at that time. The powerful and dashing warrior figurines, the Heavenly King figurines and the fat and plump horses and camels fully demonstrated the strength of the country in the early Tang Dynasty. From the female figurines with slightly fatter faces and plump bodies, it can be seen that people in the Tang Dynasty regarded fatness as beauty.
Price: 125.5 USD
Location: Smithfield, North Carolina
End Time: 2025-01-25T13:02:54.000Z
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Animal Type: Tiger
Region of Origin: China
