The qingbai glaze is a porcelain glaze so called because it was made using pottery stone.
Ming chinese blue and white porcelain.
Celedon blue white ginger jar pheonix ming longqing dynasty porcelain china.
Many elements contribute to this but the most prominent would be the cobalt blue color.
The qingbai glaze is clear but contains iron in small amounts.
Blue and white pottery chinese.
In the yuan 1279 1368 ming 1368 1644 and qing 1644 1911 dynasties in particular different types of cobalt ore and methods of application determined the distinctive feature of the shades of blue that appeared on blue and white porcelain ware.
The blue cobalt oxide sourced from central asia particularly iran was painted onto the porcelain body and then covered with a glaze called yingqing.
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Chinese blue and white porcelain has an appealing charm that has long been recognized among art collectors and ceramics aficionados.
Antique chinese ming dynasty blue and white porcelain jar.
In the first period of ming rule blue and white porcelain was the most highly prized as it had been under the mongol rulers of the yuan dynasty 1215 1368 ce.
Blue flowers patterns covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment generally cobalt oxide the decoration is commonly applied by hand originally by brush painting but nowadays by stencilling or by transfer printing though other methods of application have also been used.
Blue and white porcelain from the yuan dynasty 1271 1368 period brown glazed monochrome examples of chinese porcelain.
In china the use of blue pigment on ceramics began as early as the late tang.
When applied over a white porcelain body the glaze produces a greenish blue colour that gives the glaze its name.
During the ming 1368 1644 and qing 1644 1911 dynasties the blue and white ware industry became increasingly important because at this time blue and white porcelain was not only known within the borders of china it was also welcomed in the international trade market initiating its imitation throughout asia.