Brown-Color Glaze Tea Pot with Patch-Pattern in the Changsha Kiln
Tang Dynasty

Height: 17.8cm. Bore Diameter: 13.7 cm

When creating this tea pot, the craftsman used the technilogy of the famous Tang Three-Color Glaze Pottery.

The Three-color Glaze pottery usually uses white clay as the body, then put different colored glaze on the surface. For this tea pot, the craftsman also used clay to make some patterns, then patched the patterns on the surface after the clay body was dry. At last the tea pot was coated with glaze, then put into the furnace. When being heated in the furnace, the galze could flow and mix, so that the pottery can have a very
special color range.

Background Knowledge: History of China

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