SHAN Jie ZHOU Juanzuo WANG Changsui QIU Ping. Preliminary study of provenance and firing style of terra-cotta from Qinshihuang Mausoleum[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2003, (4): 299-305.
SHAN Jie ZHOU Juanzuo WANG Changsui QIU Ping. Preliminary study of provenance and firing style of terra-cotta from Qinshihuang Mausoleum[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2003, (4): 299-305.DOI:
Preliminary study of provenance and firing style of terra-cotta from Qinshihuang Mausoleum
Petrographic analyses of the shards of terra-cotta from Qinshihuang Mausoleum showed that the terra-cotta was made of sand-tempered pottery. Pure clay samples should be obtained from pottery body using a spe-cial method to remove the tempered sand. Both pure clay and soil samples from the area of Mountain Li were ana-lyzed by ICP-AES
and then the composition data were handled with cluster analysis. Its result supported the conjec-ture that the material of terra-cotta was from Mountain Li area. The firing temperature of 4 shards of terra-cotta sug-gested that not every terra-cotta was made in the kiln