Development of Blue and White Ceramics

Evolution and development of blue and white ceramics since the 13th century. Beginning of blue and white porcelain still a shrouded mystery as no one can say when it was produced. However, during the fourteen century blue and white porcelain were fairly common but how long before that it was made was not clear.

During the Tang Dynasty, cobalt glazes but during the rule of Sung Dynasty, it was more conservative and inward looking. The taste during the Sung Dynasty favored muted glazes of jade like superb monochrome wares that were produced during period. Magnificent monochromes with some stoutly potted stone jars known as tzu chou wares decorated with freely drawn motifs in brown or black under a creamy glazed.

After Sung Dynasty were overruled by Kublai Khan, formed the Yuan Dynasty start the copy of some Middle Eastern ceramics form which are decorating their wares with cobalt blue.

With this we can assume the beginning of the first blue and white porcelain era started at the either the right at the end of the thirteenth or else the very early 14^th century.

During the evolution, a complete break away from the conservative minded of the Sung Dynasty, found blue and white porcelain to be vulgar and garish.

The most prominent of blue and white porcelain ever to be made to imperial order during the Yuan Dynasty. A bluish white ware made for the palace decorated in slip with the characters shu-fu (privy council). Some of the Shu fu characters are dragons and serpentine dragons.

Now where do potters get the idea of decorating wares with underglazed painting. The Persian Potters have been decorating their earthen wares with underglazed blue since the 10^th century.

Earliest blue and white is decorated with floral motifs and copied in the new genre. Transitional state seen many bluish white glaze wares known as ching pai (bluish white) or ying ching (shadow blue).

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