Friday, October 3, 2008

Famille jaune, noire, rose, verte

Famille jaune, noire, rose, verte are terms used to classify by its colour palette.

Famille verte , adopted in the Kangxi , uses green and iron red with other overglaze colours. It developed from the Wucai style.

Famille jaune is a variation using famille verte on a yellow ground.

Famille noire uses a black ground .

Famille rose was introduced during the reign of Kangxi , possibly around 1720. It used mainly pink or purple and remained popular throughout the 18th and the 19th centuries.

Famille rose enamel ware allows a greater range of colour and tone than was previously possible, enabling the depiction of more complex images, including flowers, figures and insects.

It is made by drawing a sketch on the shaped clay, which is then covered with ‘glassy white’ , an opaque white enamel , and painted in detail with the mixture of pigment and oil, before .

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