A Study Of The Sui Dynasty And The Tang Dynasty Glassware

Although it is not a Chinese specialty products, but the Chinese ancient history of glass in the world is a unique style. Sui and Tang dynasty unearthed a large number of glass, there are also local Chinese-made glass has exotic style, the Sassanid-style glassware flower carved with the Islamic style of glassware. Researchers of glass in Sui and Tang mostly carried our research on a particular excavations unearthed glass or a bottle reviewed as the relic of a special category for glass, but the lack of Sui an Tang Dynasty unearthed all glass systematic research, which is understood in terms of glass products is biased. Therefore, the glass is a conduct a more comprehensive study is necessary.Glass products in the Sui and Tang Dynasties is a very important part in Chinese ancient glass, with a connecting role. The Sui and Tang Dynasties glass wares unearthed not only traditional style containers in the cup, bowl, plate, compared with the past also increased a lot of new type such as egg shaped device, to the late Tang Dynasty with glass ornaments hair more popular. With the prevalence of Buddhism in China, glass has also become common goods buried in bury Buddhist relics. But the glass is still a very high position, for the royal nobles and ministers of all. Glass now shows the characteristics of domestic glass and imported glass coexist, when domestic can not only produce high lead glass Chinese tradition has also been shown to produce glass device with China traditional style to the traditional western composition of sodium calcium material, more the Sassanid style glass and Islamic style glass device is imported glass device for many, these western glass is derived through the Silk Road import, and with the further development of the Silk Road, bring certain influence for glass China also manufacturing of glass industry in Japan and South korea.