TANG DYNASTY 618907 AD Large Vessel Vase In Earthenware Pottery Pigments

Vase from the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). This is a beautiful and oversized Chinese high d vase with impressed geometric design, from the ancient Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) in China. The massive high d red pottery storage jar has elegant proportions, with a wide mouth with an out-turned lip tapering downwards to a slightly concave foot. The voluptuous bold body is decorated simply with a repeating linear design and accents of white pigments. The deeply impressed design covers most of the body around, starting just under the upper mouth, and stopping just above the foot. The design was created using a carved stamp or paddle to impress the design into the gray pottery body while it was still wet. Acquired from T.K. Asian Antiquities Gallery in Williamsburg, Virginia. Tang Dynasty  This was a period also known as Tang Empire. Was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Tend Kingdoms period. Historians generally regard the Tang as a high point in Chinese civilization, and the golden age of cosmopolitan culture. Tang territory, acquired through the military campaigns of its early rulers, rivaled that of the Han dynasty. The Li family founded the dynasty, seizing power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire and inaugurating a period of progress and stability in the first half of the dynasty's rule. The dynasty was formally in