Rare tri-colored pottery unearthed in Hebei   

河北内丘邢窑遗迹群出土罕见隋三彩

继今年6月河北省邢台市内丘县发现完整邢窑窑炉遗迹群后，河北省文物研究所研究员、邢窑窑炉群考古队队长王会民25日称，目前该遗迹群又有重大发现，已清理出的11座窑炉遗迹中出土中国罕见的隋三彩，印证了邢窑在隋朝甚至更早就会烧制三彩。

Shijiazhuang (CNS) -- Several pieces of tri-colored pottery from the Sui Dynasty (581-618) have been recovered from kilns found last July in north China's Hebei province, a local official said on Thursday.

As this year's excavation work nears its end, more than 200,000 ceramic pieces have been cleared out of 11 kilns, said Wang Huimin, an archaeologist from the Cultural Relics Institute of Hebei.

Tri-colored pottery from the Sui Dynasty is a major discovery because it is much rarer than the widely-known tri-colored pottery of the Tang Dynasty, Wang said.

The discovery is also important because it shows that the kilns in Xingtai, a city in southern Hebei, were capable of producing tri-colored pottery during the Sui, he added.