Sancai-glazed pottery horse
Date: 618--907
Height: 54.6 cm
The Tang dynasty witnessed a rapid development in ceramics, including the emergence of the famous Tang lead-glazed sancai (three-color) wares, the high-firing, lime-glazed Yue celadon wares and low-fired wares from Changsha.
Sancai, in particular, is a branch renowned for its variety of colors (white, yellow and green) and delicate quality. This horse is an excellent example of sancai. Three flowers are placed in its hair and its head leans leftward slightly while lifting its tail, suggesting that it is ready to gallop.
Colored pottery maid
Date: 618--907
Height: 73cm
Nowadays, no such sentence is more embedded in the female psyche than the maxim, “It pays to be slimmer.” However, this was not the case in the Tang Dynasty, when people took fatness for beauty. Plump girls were always regarded as beautiful and elegant, as can be seen in the maid above.
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