Ancient Chinese Glazed Sancai Ceramic Pottery Doll Toy Sculpture HandworkTang Dynasty

Here is an ancient miniature sculpture of hen in SANCAI (tri-colored ) art during Tang dynasty of Chinese . Found from the bottom of Chow phya river in Ayutthaya province in the middle of Thailand. Probably it was imported from China or brought by Chinese merchant in trading between both country in the  Sukhothai or Ayutthaya kingdom period. This sculpture was glazed with 3 color (orange, green, yellow)  on white clay. Due to it was submerged for a long time cause the glazed color peel off, only orange can see clearly.

Date : apprx.  900-300 yrs.

Size :  2.5 cm.(wide)x5 cm.(long)x4.5cm.(tall)

Weight :  25 grams. 

SANCAIChinese name meaning "three glazes" of a low fired lead glaze based style of decorating earthenware pottery regardless of the actual number of colors of the item. If there is a technical explanation of the term it might be that the colors actually are based on specifically three different oxides i.e. iron giving yellow to brown hues, copper giving green or occasionally brown colors and the rare cobalt for blue. The colors can occur as monochromes or together.

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