Tang Dynasty Earthenware Horse with Sancai Glaze

Arts of Significance 700 AD Medieval 🇨🇳 China 275 views

A magnificent earthenware horse with three-colour (sancai) lead glaze from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE), representing the Silk Road culture of cosmopolitan Tang China. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Symbol of the Silk RoadNo image captures the cosmopolitan dynamism of Tang Dynasty China more powerfully than the sancai horse. These large earthenware funerary sculptures celebrate the Bactrian and Arabian horses that arrived in China via the Silk Road — precious gifts from Central Asian kingdoms a...

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