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Chinese
Tripod dish 700 CE-750 CE
earthenware
4.9 × 19.2 cm diameter
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of H. W. Kent, 1938
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About this work
This Tang dynasty (618–907) three-footed offering plate or dish is decorated with sancai (three-colour) lead glazes. The term actually refers to a palette that could include more than three colours, and in this example cobalt oxide blue glaze, a mineral pigment introduced into Chinese ceramics at this time, has been added to the standard three colours of brown, cream and green. Cobalt would later be used in blue-and-white underglaze decoration, beginning in the Yuan dynasty. The cobalt blue was probably imported from sources in Iran, reflecting the cosmopolitanism of Tang-period China.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Henan / Shaanxi province, north China, China
Accession Number
3689-D3
Department
Asian Art
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