Height:19"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.
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This is a very exquisite artwork that depicts the image of plump women holding dogs and babies in the Tang Dynasty of China.
These plump women are dressed in gorgeous clothes, wearing hats, and holding dogs and babies in their arms.
Their expressions are very vivid, as if they are showing their happy life to the audience.
The craftsmanship of this artwork is very exquisite, and every detail is handled very well.
Its colors are also very bright, giving people a pleasant feeling.
This artwork is not only a decoration, but it also represents the culture and history of the Tang Dynasty in China.
By appreciating this artwork, we can better understand the culture and artistic style of the Tang Dynasty in China.
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