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Sancai (Chinese: 三彩; pinyin:
sāncǎi; lit. 'three colours') is a
versatile type of
decoration on
Chinese pottery and
other painted pieces using glazes...
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Sancai Tu**** (Chinese: 三才圖會, san-TS'EYE TOO-khwey),
compiled by Wang Qi (Chinese: 王圻) and his son Wang Siyi (王思義), is a
Chinese leishu encyclopedia, completed...
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colouring was in
paint it has
often not survived, but in many
cases it was in
sancai ("three-colour")
ceramic glaze,
which has
generally lasted well. The figures...
- 800 °C (1,470 °F). They have been used for
about 2,000
years in
China e.g.
sancai,
around the Mediterranean, and in
Europe e.g.
Victorian majolica. Salt-glaze...
- in the north, are in
sancai,
while others are
unpainted or were
painted over a slip; the
paint has now
often fallen off. The
sancai vessels too may have...
- the
British Library. It is
based on a
portrait of Qin Shi
Huang from the
Sancai Tu****.
Volume 90 of
Treatise on
Astrology of the
Kaiyuan Era (8th century)...
- Quantu, is a
Chinese map
which was
published in the
geographical treatise Sancai Tu****. The
Shanhai Yudi
Quantu was
influenced highly by the work of Matteo...
- Guangzhi, Piya, and Baopuzi, an
entry for the zhen also
appears in the
Sancai Tu****
along with a
woodblock print. In the
historical records of ancient...
- this "jinmenju", as well as the
Wakan Sansai Zue,
quote from the
Chinese Sancai Tu****,
which describes a
similar tree from a land
called "Dashiguo" (Chinese...
- can be
found in the
Chinese military compilations the Wǔ jīng zǒng yào,
Sāncái tú huì, the Wǔbèi zhì, and many others,
though no
artifact representations...
