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Covered Jar, early 700s. This covered cylindrical jar with three animal feet is lavishly covered with a cobalt blue glaze in the exterior and an amber glaze in the interior. Of the coloured lead glazes of sancai (three-colour) ware, blue was preeminent and precious. Imported cobalt from Persia (Iran, Afghanistan) was used as a glaze colourant that yields a rich, brilliant blue of considerable splendor.