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110 Horst. Painted pottery. Said to be
from a tomb near Loyang. Northern
Chinese art, although here and there an untroubled mastery was
Wei Dynasty.
achieved, as in the beautiful porcellaneous vase from the tomb of
a Northern Ch'i official buried at Anyang in 575. It is covered with
an ivory white, crackled glaze splashed with green—a technique
hitherto thought to have been unknown in China before the T'ang
Dynasty. This tomb also contained pottery flasks with Sasanian
figure subjects in relief under a brown glaze. A similar mixture of
Chinese and western Asiatic motifs and techniques can be seen in
other crafts in China at this time, notably metalwork and relief
sculpture, showing that the cosmopolitanism that we think of as
typical of the first half of the T'ang Dynasty was already well es-
tablished in the sixth century.
So far, very few Six Dynasties kiln sites have been discovered in
the north. The position in the lower Yangtse Valley is quite differ-
141 Vase. Stoneware slipped and
splashed with green under an ivory- ent. Kilns have been located in ten counties in Chckiang alone,
white glaze. From a tomb of 575 at while many of their products have been unearthed from dated
Anyang, Honan. Northern Ch'i
Dynasty. tombs of the third and fourth centuries in the Nanking region. Of
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