three-colour ware

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• ceramics ( in pottery: Provincial and export wares;

  The provincial tile kilns also manufactured “three-coloured” (san ts’ai) wares, perhaps originally a product of the Tz’u-chou kilns. These were decorated with coloured glazes that were often kept from intermingling by threads of clay (cloisonné technique) or were used in conjunction with the pierced technique...

  in Chinese music: Ceramics;

  ...Ting ware of the Northern Sung. Late-7th- and 8th-century ceramists in northern China, working primarily at kilns at T’ung-ch’uan near Ch’ang-an and at Kung-hsien in Honan province, also developed “three-colour” (san ts’ai) pottery wares and figurines that were slipped and covered with a low-fired lead glaze tinted with...

  in Chinese music: Ceramics )

  ...are known as “Swatow ware” from one of the export sites. Among the most impressive of Ming pottery types are the san ts’ai (“three-colour”) wares, chiefly vases and jars decorated with floral motifs in turquoise, purple, yellow, and deep violet blue, the colours being separated by raised lines in...