Green Family offering bowl. China, mid-19th century.
Enamelled... Lot 95
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Green Family offering bowl. China, mid-19th century.
Enamelled porcelain.
It shows wear due to use and the passage of time.
Measurements: 6 x 20 x 21 cm.
The term Green Family is the Western name for a style of Chinese polychrome porcelain derived from wucai (literally, 'five colours'). Wucai was created in the Ming dynasty and has been widely used in China ever since. It is characterised by only some of the motifs being executed in cobalt-blue underglaze, while the rest of the decoration is applied already on the glaze. In addition, black glaze is added for the outlines, in early times covered with a translucent green glaze to fix it. The Green Family style is a type of wucai called yingcai ("solid colours"), which is characterised by the predominance of copper oxide green. The name yingcai refers to the quality of the glazes, which are crystalline because they are mostly applied to the glaze.
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