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
The use of enamels over the glaze was greatly extended in the Wan Li
period, though practically all the types in vogue at this time can
be paralleled in the Chia Ching porcelain, and, indeed, have been
discussed under that heading. There is the red family in which the
dominant colour is an iron red, either of curiously sticky appearance
and dark coral tint or with the surface dissolved in a lustrous
iridescence. Yellow, usually a dark impure colour, though sometimes
washed on extremely thin and consequently light and transparent,
and transparent greens, which vary from leaf tint to emerald and
bluish greens, occur in insignificant quantity. This red family is
well illustrated by a splendid covered jar in the Salting Collection
(Plate 80), and by three marked specimens in the British Museum, an
ink screen, a bowl, and a circular stand. It also occurs on another
significant piece in the latter collection, a dish admirably copying
the Ming style but marked _Shên tê t’ang po ku chih_[201] (antique
made for the Shên-tê Hall), a palace mark of the Tao Kuang period
(1821–1850). It should be added that this colour scheme[202] is
frequently seen on the coarsely made and roughly decorated jars and
dishes with designs of lions in peony scrolls, etc., no doubt made in
large quantities for export to India and Persia. They are not uncommon
to-day, and in spite of their obvious lack of finish they possess
certain decorative qualities, due chiefly to the mellow red, which are
not to be despised.
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