Some cool china mold making images:
china ceramics – sancai horse
Image by Xuan Che
Palace Museum, Beijing.
北京故宫
Sancai horse
Tang Dynasty, 618–907 A.D.
Sancai is a standard sort of ceramics employing 3 intermingled colors in Tang Dynasty. Although Sancai literally implies "three colors", the colors of the glazes used to decorate the wares of the Tang Dynasty generally had been not restricted to three.
Sancai wares were northern wares created employing white and buff-firing secondary kaolins and fire clays. At kiln web sites situated at Tongchuan, Neiqui county in Hebei and Gongxian in Henan, the clays employed for burial wares have been comparable to these utilised by Tang potters. The burial wares have been fired at a decrease temperature than contemporaneous whitewares. Burial wares, such as the nicely-identified representations of camels and horses, were cast in sections, in moulds with the components luted together using clay slip. In some circumstances, a degree of individuality was imparted to the assembled figurines by hand-carving.
Sancai travelled along the Silk Road, to be later extensively used in Syrian, Cypriot, and then Italian pottery from the 13th to the middle of the 15th century. Sancai also became a popular style in Japanese and other East Asian ceramic arts.
The Palace Museum holds 340,000 pieces of ceramics and porcelain, such as the imperial collections from the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, as nicely as pieces commissioned by the Palace, and, often by the Emperor personally, as a result represents the best of porcelain production in China. The ceramic collection of the Palace Museum represents a comprehensive record of Chinese ceramic production more than the previous 8,000 years, as properly as a single of the biggest such collections in the world. For much more, see wikipedia.
Ballerina Lea 2012
Image by napudollworld
The created in China ballerina lea 2012. The 1 I got earlier was made in Indonesia. There is a difference in facial mold !!!-D!!!