Enamel Painted Porcelain 琺瑯彩繪瓷 （景泰藍）

Enamel Painted Porcelain 琺瑯彩繪瓷 （景泰藍）

Porcelain, Colour, Pattern

Enamel Painted Porcelain was pottery that featured unique techniques such as overglaze painting and cloisonné (embedding of minerals). It emerged during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912 AD) which dubbed it as Qing porcelain. The Qing imperial court would order custom-made pieces of enamel painted porcelain.

Ordinary Chinese Porcelain

Qing Dynasty (1644-1912 AD)

White Porcelain, Blue and White Porcelain, Black Porcelain, Celadon

Hard, Smooth, Colourful

Craft

Applying a variety of over-glaze pigments to decorative schemes of flower, landscape and figurative scenes, these wares have gained great fame in the West. In the eighteenth century, borrowing from techniques in the decoration of metalware, enamel was painted on porcelain to create vivid colors and stunning patterns.

Ceramic

It was used for decoration.