Ewer

Black glaze production expanded rapidly from the south to the north beginning in the second century. During the Tang, northern black ware shared shapes commonly seen in products with other colors of glaze. The most popular tea pots of the Tang, black-glazed ewers, were produced in Henan (ZGCP Zhanlan 1981: fig. 396), Shaanxi (WW 1987.3: 28), and Anhui (ZGCP Zhanlan 1981: figs. 313-4). This rounded shape with a flaring, rimmed neck and a spout facing a two- or three-bar handle over a globular body on a flat base was produced mainly during the first half of the eighth century.