Appreciating Ming and Qing Blue-and-White Porcelain Paintings

Author: Wu Yuhua
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: When it comes to blue and white porcelain, its serene and vibrant colors, elegant and graceful shapes, and exquisite, simple designs are truly captivating. It is created by using cobalt as the pigment, painting on the plain porcelain body with a brush, and then glazing it with transparent glaze before firing in a kiln at a high temperature of around 1300 degrees Celsius in a single firing. The cobalt pigment appears black before firing but transforms into beautiful blue hues after the high-temperature process.