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Glazed Double Gourd Bottle

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« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2016, 10:37:16 am »

Dear Kevin,
yes I confirm, underglaze blue enamel does not exist. By enamels I am referring, and I believe you too are thinking the same, to the thick enamels that we usually see on over glaze decorated ware, like Famille verte, famille rose, and so on. The under glaze blue is a diluted cobalt slip and yes, it exists, it is on your bottle and on an impressive quantity of Chinese ceramics starting from Yuan dynasty until today. Probably the most common decoration in the Chinese ceramics field. And it is what you see on Ming ware. The wucai ware has under glaze cobalt blue. It is only during Kangxi that the over glaze thick enamel has been invented and we can see it in full famille verte ware. Since then the blue can either be the classic, typical, extremely common, under glaze cobalt slip or the much, much less common over glaze thick enamel. But you can distinguish them 20 meters away.
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