"Blue-and-white" redirects here. For Jay Chou's song with the same Chinese name, see Blue and White Porcelain. For other uses, see Blue and white (disambiguation).
Blue and white porcelain
Chinese blue and white jar, Ming dynasty, mid-15th century
Chinese
青花瓷
Literal meaning
"blue and white porcelain"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
qīng-huā
Dutch delftware vase in a Japanese style, c. 1680
"Blue and white pottery" (Chinese: 青花; pinyin: qīng-huā; lit. 'Blue flowers/patterns') covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration is commonly applied by hand, originally by brush painting, but nowadays by stencilling or by transfer-printing, though other methods of application have also been used. The cobalt pigment is one of the very few that can withstand the highest firing temperatures that are required, in particular for porcelain, which partly accounts for its long-lasting popularity. Historically, many other colours required overglaze decoration and then a second firing at a lower temperature to fix that.
The origin of the blue glazes thought to lie in Iraq, when craftsmen in Basra sought to imitate imported white Chinese stoneware with their own tin-glazed, white pottery and added decorative motifs in blue glazes.[1] Such Abbasid-era pieces have been found in present-day Iraq dating to the 9th century A.D., decades after the opening of a direct sea route from Iraq to China.[2]
In China, a style of decoration based on sinuous plant forms spreading across the object was perfected and most commonly used. Blue and white decoration first became widely used in Chinese porcelain in the 14th century, after the cobalt pigment for the blue began to be imported from Persia. It was widely exported, and inspired imitative wares in Islamic ceramics, and in Japan, and later European tin-glazed earthenware such as Delftware and after the techniques were discovered in the 18th century, European porcelain. Blue and white pottery in all of these traditions continues to be produced, most of it copying earlier styles.
^""Tang Blue-and-White," by Regina Krahl" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
^"Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation". Archived from the original on 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
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