Blue and White Porcelain

Blue And White Porcelain

"Blue and white wares" (Chinese: 青花; pinyin: qīng-huā; literally "Blue flowers") designate white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration is commonly applied by hand, by stencilling or by transfer-printing, though other methods of application have also been used.

Read more about Blue And White Porcelain:  Origin and Development

Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or white:

    “Little Boy Blue,
    Come blow your horn,”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Little Boy Blue (l. 1–2)

    “Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)