Chinese Ceramics & Antiques Discussion

Antique Chinese Ceramics => Chinese Ceramics Discussion => Topic started by: bucanero on Mar 27, 2014, 02:08:20

Title: sancai rider and horse dinasty???
Post by: bucanero on Mar 27, 2014, 02:08:20
I need information age of this sancai
Thank you very much
Title: Re: sancai rider and horse dinasty???
Post by: calder on Mar 27, 2014, 03:44:21
Can't tell you how old but would of sat on a roof " tiles once served as guardians"
Title: Re: sancai rider and horse dinasty???
Post by: peterp on Mar 27, 2014, 07:26:48
This is not sancai. Apparently made for the ridge of a roof. Probably not very old, perhaps a few decades?
Title: Re: sancai rider and horse dinasty???
Post by: bucanero on Mar 27, 2014, 19:19:04
thanks for your answers, but I've seen that could be ming seventeenth century porcelain has micro cracks that lead me to think that may be so old
Title: Re: sancai rider and horse dinasty???
Post by: peterp on Mar 27, 2014, 21:20:21
Many porcelain glazes develop crackling during firing. They are often not visible, however, because they are the same color as the glaze. Only later, when artificially or naturally sediments (dirt) enters the crazing do they become visible. Crackling is not an absolute age sign.