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Paperbound. Condition: As New. No Dust Jacket. First Impression. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 39. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . During the Sui and Tang dynasties (608 to 907 AD), a wide range of ceramics, low-fired and high-fired, were produced. These included the last significant fine earthenwares to be produced in China, mostly lead-glazed sancai (three-colour) wares. Many of the well-known lively Tang dynasty tomb figures, which were only made to be placed in elite tombs close to the capital in the north, are in sancai, while others are unpainted or were painted over a slip.…