Pilgrim Flask. 701 AD–750 AD. China. Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes Trans-Asiatic trade expanded the Chinese repertoire of simple, wheel-thrown clay shapes to include composite forms pressed in molds. This pilgrim flask—a vessel shape that may imitate forms originally made in glass, leather, or metalwork —depicts a young boy adorned with a billowing scarf, who dances with a lion. Although similar images can be traced back to Hellenistic Greece (c. 300-200 ), the extent of such Classical influence on the much later art of Tang dynasty China has yet to be v
Pilgrim Flask. 701 AD–750 AD. China. Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes Trans-Asiatic trade expanded the Chinese repertoire of simple, wheel-thrown clay shapes to include composite forms pressed in molds. This pilgrim flask—a vessel shape that may imitate forms originally made in glass, leather, or metalwork —depicts a young boy adorned with a billowing scarf, who dances with a lion. Although similar images can be traced back to Hellenistic Greece (c. 300-200 ), the extent of such Classical influence on the much later art of Tang dynasty China has yet to be vessel displays a fluid “three-color” (sancai) glaze, named after the archetypical combination of bright green, amber, and white (transparent) lead-rich glazes that have been colored with carefully measured recipes of metallic oxides. The green derives from copper and the amber from iron.
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