22-02-2018, 02:08 AM
I wish I had screen-clipped it, but I came across a detail in a 12th-century manuscript that looks like sancai if you look at it really closely. It's a drawing of birds, part of a medieval bestiary and the colors coincidentally match some of the most common colors in sancai ceramics and, because it's a water-based paint, it ran a bit, just as the glaze runs a bit in sancai pieces.

