Tricolor Pottery Tripod Flower-petal Plate

With multiple glaze colors, tricolor pottery wares in the Tang dynasty provide magnificent visual impact. This plate was glazed with the batik technique that was applied in textile manufactory at that time. The craftsman would cover some areas with wax so that these parts wouldn’t be stained with the glaze that was applied all over the clay body. In so doing, the result pottery would have some parts retain white–the color of the clay body–after the wax was peeled off.