Sancai Glazed

The distinct look of Sancai comes from the way the glazes melt and run together, creating a flowing effect that makes each piece unique.

The distinct look of Sancai comes from the way the glazes melt and run together, creating a flowing effect that makes each piece unique.

This lamp’s one-of-a-kind glaze takes inspiration from traditional sancai or tri-colored glazes.

The distinct look of Sancai comes from the way the glazes melt and run together, creating a flowing effect that makes each piece unique.

Period: Ming Dynasty (1368~1644) Medium: Sancai-Glazed Type: Mingqi Size : 30 cm x 17cm(Diameter), 20cm(Height) Provenance : Acquired in 1999, Hongkong * Altar tables with offering...

The distinct look of Sancai comes from the way the glazes melt and run together, creating a flowing effect that makes each piece unique.

A fantastic pair of large Chinese tileworks sancai glazed Buddhistic lions and attendants, late Ming Dynasty, first half of the 17th century, Shanxi, China.

The distinct look of Sancai comes from the way the glazes melt and run together, creating a flowing effect that makes each piece unique.

The distinct look of Sancai comes from the way the glazes melt and run together, creating a flowing effect that makes each piece unique.

The distinct look of Sancai comes from the way the glazes melt and run together, creating a flowing effect that makes each piece unique.

A Chinese Sancai-style glazed vase with four handles to shoulder.

A pair of Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) sancai-glazed ridge tiles modelled as horse and rider.

A large vintage Tang style Sancai glazed terracotta horse. This exquisite piece features a striking green and brown color glazed finish, infusing it with a touch of classic allure.

Many of these wares featured sancai glazing, a distinct color palette of lead glazes brushed, dipped, and poured over the vessel.

Many of these wares featured sancai glazing, a distinct color palette of lead glazes brushed, dipped, and poured over the vessel.

This míngqì is of a male attendant dressed in a flowing robes, finished with a creme-white glaze streaked with green in the manner of sancai wares.

Many of these wares featured sancai glazing, a distinct color palette of lead glazes brushed, dipped, and poured over the vessel.

Drawing on Tang-dynasty sancai, or three color ware, the Qing-dynasty headrest is coated in green, amber, and cream glazes that flow and mix over its sculptural form.

Many of these wares featured sancai glazing, a distinct color palette of lead glazes brushed, dipped, and poured over the vessel.

Many of these wares featured sancai glazing, a distinct color palette of lead glazes brushed, dipped, and poured over the vessel.

A large antique Chinese glazed Sancai pottery temple guardian figure, designed to ward off evil spirits and protect the owners tumb.

Period: Ming Dynasty (1368~1644) Medium: Sancai-Glazed Type: Mingqi Provenance : Acquired in late 1990s from Hongkong Reference: 1) Royal Ontario Museum - Object number: 918.10.3 (Ty...

Drenched in color, these ceramic garden drums are drip glazed in the manner of ancient Chinese sancai ware, cloaked in luminous shades of emerald green and amber.

These low, ceramic garden drums are drip glazed in the manner of ancient Chinese sancai ware, cloaked in luminous shades of emerald green and amber.

A motif with origins as early as the Han dynasty (202 BC-220 AD), the chiwen is shown swallowing the roof ridge so as to ‘swallow all evil influences’ and protect from fire, flood an...

Awaji Pottery vase with taotie mask handles and arresting sancai (three color) drip glaze. Circa 1930. Hand turned.

With time, these figures became more fanciful and flamboyant, and many later ones were covered in the iconic three-color (Sancai) glazes to enhance their visual effect. This pair of...

A pair of Ming dynasty sancai blue glazed pottery figures. Circa 1500 AD Ming Dynasty I have owned over 250 ming tomb figures including over 80 dignitary figures and these are ra...

A near pair of 19th century Sancai green glazed pottery teapots. Both with yoked handles, spouts and lids.

The face is framed by more goat-like attributes - a pair of long, floppy ears, a single horn rising from the top of the head, and a short, bushy green glazed beard. The mythical be...

The impressive and realistically modeled figures each portrayed standing upright upon a sancai (three color) glazed pedestal of kang table form.

Chinese Su Sanci glazed figure of a horse and a boy. Sancai decoration uses glazes predominantly in three colors: brown or amber, green or creamy white with the more rare use of blue.

Chinese Su Sanci glazed figure of a horse and a boy. Sancai decoration uses glazes predominantly in three colours: brown or amber, green or creamy white with the more rare use of blue.

Awaji Pottery plate in sancai (three color) glaze with hand incised pair of circling dragons.

Standing nearly 21 inches tall, the figure depicts a dignified court official or deity, characterized by a porcelain-white visage that contrasts strikingly against the earthy, Sancai...

Two Chinese Ming style sancai polychrome glaze terracotta pottery figures of Chinese dignitaries in glazed green and ocher terracotta on hexagonal bases and removable heads.

The coloring technique used is likely a form of traditional Chinese glazing, possibly influenced by the Sancai (three-color) glaze method, which was popular during the Tang Dynasty.

The Awaji potters were adept at creating unadorned monochromes, two-tone glazes, three-color glazes (sancai), incised decoration (most commonly featuring irises), and applied relief ...

The Awaji potters were adept at creating unadorned monochromes, two-tone glazes, three-color glazes (sancai), incised decoration (most commonly featuring irises), and applied relief ...

Following Han dynasty traditions, Tang mingqi frequently take the form of musicians, dancers, and servants in clay, but are ornamented with sancai (three-color) glaze, an artistic in...

They were perhaps the last significant fine earthenware’s to be produced in China. Many are lead-glazed Sancai (three-colour) wares; others are unpainted or were painted over a slip;...

Following Han dynasty traditions, Tang mingqi frequently take the form of musicians, dancers, and servants in clay, but are ornamented with sancai (three-color) glaze, an artistic in...

Antique Chinese Tang Dynasty-style terra cotta figure of a horse commonly used as a tomb figure for wealthy burials in the 7-8th centuries, and crafted with its traditional tri-color...

Pair #2: Chinese Export Porcelain Green Sancai Glazed Parrots China, Late 19th Century This exceptional pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Green Sancai Glazed Parrots, crafted in the...