Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing PorcelainHobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
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Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain
Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
Porcelain, Chinese; Pottery, Chinese
(2) Blue ware, which included blue bowls (_ch’ing wan_), sky-blue bowls
(_t’ien ch’ing wan_), and turquoise bowls (_ts’ui ch’ing wan_). In
some cases the ware is described as plain blue monochrome, and in one
item it is “best blue monochrome” (_t’ou ch’ing su_), while in others
there are designs engraved under the glaze (_an hua_). In others,
again, ornament such as dragons and sea waves is mentioned without
specifying how it was executed. Such ornament may have been etched
with a point in the blue surface,[110] or pencilled in darker blue on
a blue background or reserved in white in a blue ground. Another kind
is more fully described as “round dishes of pure blue (_shun ch’ing_)
with dragons and sea waves inside, and on the exterior a background of
dense cloud scrolls[111] with a gilt[112] decoration of three lions and
dragons.” Bushell[113] speaks of the “beautiful mottled blue ground for
which this reign is also remarkable,” and which, he says, was produced
by the usual blend of Mohammedan and native blue suspended in water.
(3) Wares which were white inside and blue outside.
(4) White ware, plain[114] or with engraved designs under the glaze
(_an hua_, lit. secret ornament).
(5) Ware with brown glaze in two varieties, _tzŭ chin_ (golden brown),
and _chin huang_ (golden yellow), with dragon designs engraved under
the glaze. These are the well-known lustrous brown glazes, the former
of dark coffee brown shade, and the latter a light golden brown.
(6) Ware with mixed colours (_tsa sê_), which included bowls and
dishes decorated in iron red[115] (_fan hung_) instead of the “fresh
red” (_hsien hung_); others with emerald green colour (_ts’ui lü sê_);
bowls with phœnixes and flowers of Paradise in yellow in a blue ground;
cups with blue cloud and dragon designs in a yellow ground; boxes with
dragon and phœnix designs engraved under a yellow glaze; dishes with
design of a pair of dragons and clouds in yellow within a golden brown
(_tzŭ chin_) ground; and globular bowls with embossed[116] ornament in
a single-coloured ground.
To these types Bushell adds from other similar lists crackled ware
(_sui ch’i_), tea cups of “greenish white porcelain” (_ch’ing pai
tz’ŭ_), which seems to be a pale celadon, and large fish bowls with pea
green (_tou ch’ing_) glaze.
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