In terms of pottery tang dynasty (618-907) is recognized for the predominance of pepper salad on your porcelain objects. It is commonly called tricolor porcelain because in this period the colors most used by artisans were yellow, green and white. This does not mean that all the pieces only had these three colors, there were pieces with four or five, but in general these three predominated.
Drawing on glazed pottery from the Han Dynasty period, the Tang Dynasty pottery and porcelain set a milestone in both beauty and technique. The favorite motifs were horses, camels, figures of women, dragon-headed jugs, figures of musicians, acrobats, and pillows. The most beautiful of them have always been the camels, representing the Silk Road trips, carrying musicians with their riders wrapped in long robes, hats and whips, just like the originals who lived in Central Asia at that time.
The period of splendor of this type of tricolor glazed porcelain then occurred around 1.300 years ago thanks to the ability that the Chinese already had to draw, paint and sculpt. Afterwards, strokes of different colors were painted that the subsequent chemical reactions that took place in the oven finished shaping and they were the most natural with faded and not strong tones.
While the tricolor porcelain It did not last a thousand years and only had a moment of splendor in the XNUMXth century of this dynasty when aristocratic families used these objects in their funeral ceremoniesThis was fortunate because many priceless examples have been preserved in the tombs. Today they can be one of our souvenirs, because cheap reproductions are made in Xi'an and other cities in China. They are quite good, so keep them in mind.
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