Craft:Chinese traditional handicraft with thousands of years history

Origin:Luoyang

Tang San Cai, also called Tricolor Glazed Pottery and a gem of ancient Chinese art, is a kind of handmade glazed ware of exquisite craftsmanship created in the Northern and Southern Dynasty (386-589) about 1,400 years ago. During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the production of Tang San Cai reached its peak, which is part of the reason the pottery got the name of Tang San Cai.

Luoyang, named the eastern capital in ancient times, in Henan Province was the home of Tang San Cai, and most of unearthed Tang San Cai was found in Luoyang.

Tang San Cai is a polychrome handicraft with yellow, green, and white as its major tones. It is fired with lead glaze and presents a harmonious complex of varied colors, deep and light. The process is complicated: first, bake the ready mode in kilns until the temperature reaches 1,100oC, then take it out and apply glaze on it; bake it again in kilns at a temperature of about 900¡ãC.

Tang San Cai items that have been unearthed include horses, humans, and even pillows, and camels, of which the pottery camel is one of the best. Its head rises high, as if telling stories about merchant caravans along the Silk Road in the remote past and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

Being the gem of ancient Chinese art, Tang San Cai absorbed the advantages of Chinese painting, sculpture and stone carving. It features fleshy figures, regular and exquisite technics, compact carving traces, and smooth lines, indicating the high-level of the craft reached in the Tang Dynasty. Tang San Cai is primaryly divided into pottery tomb-figures and daily commodities.

After the founding of new China, specialized institutions have been set up to study the technics of making Tang San Cai, which has boosted the development of the craft.

Rich Artistic Connotation & Historical Background:

This is a Chinese classical Tang tri-coloured glazed pottery statue named "Tang Tri-Coloured Glazed Pottery Horseback Merchant".

It depicts the bustling scene of Tang Dynasty's commercial prosperity, with merchants riding horses on busy streets.

This artwork has rich historical significance and cultural connotations, reflecting the economic development and living conditions of Tang Dynasty society.

Tang tri-coloured glazed pottery is one of the treasures of ancient Chinese ceramic art, famous for its unique colors and shapes.

The production process of Tang tri-coloured glazed pottery is exquisite, with bright colors and lifelike images, which have high artistic and collection value.

This Tang tri-coloured glazed pottery horseback merchant statue shows the image and life scene of Tang Dynasty merchants, allowing people to feel the prosperity and development of Tang Dynasty's commercial culture.

Its appearance not only enriches people's artistic appreciation experience, but also provides important physical materials for studying Tang Dynasty's social economy and culture.

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