‖ san ts'ai
(san tsaɪ)
Also san-ts'ai.
[Chinese sāncǎi, f. sān three + cǎi colour.]
Chinese pottery, esp. of the Tang dynasty, decorated in three colours; decoration in three enamel colours applied to pottery and porcelain. Also attrib.
| 1901 C. Monkhouse Hist. & Descr. Chinese Porc. i. caption facing p. 35 Squirrel and grapes: San-ts'ai water pourer. 1906 S. W. Bushell Chinese Art II. ii. viii. 37 For a typical example of the san ts'ai, or ‘three-coloured’, decoration sur biscuit, see the pictures..of a fish-shaped water pourer, which is painted with the brownish-purple, green, and yellow enamels of this genre. 1915 R. L. Hobson Chinese Pott. & Porc. II. x. 151 The Dresden collection is peculiarly rich in this kind of san ts‘ai. 1959 H. Chevalier tr. Grousset's Chinese Art & Culture vi. 292 The main categories of Ming ceramics are..: 1. San-ts‘ai or ‘three-colours’, namely green.., yellow.., and aubergine-violet. 1972 Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. XXXVIII. 29 The combination of green, blue and yellow-brown glaze which constitutes the famous T‘ang polychromes (‘three-colour ware’, san-ts‘ai) appear to belong..to the first half of the 8th century. 1978 P. Van Greenaway Man called Scavener xi. 159 A priceless san ts'ai bowl. |