Description
Perfumer. China, early 20th century. Painted porcelain. With seal on the base. Measurements: 11.3 x 7.5 x 4 cm. Perfume holder with a prismatic tank and cylindrical mouth. Its surface is decorated in the style of the Green Family, a Western term used to designate a style of Chinese polychrome porcelain derived from wucai (literally, 'five colours'). Wucai was created during the Ming dynasty, and has been widely used in China ever since. It is characterised by only some of the motifs being executed in cobalt-blue underglaze, while the rest of the decoration is applied already on the glaze. In addition, black glaze is added for the outlines, in early times covered with a translucent green glaze to fix it. The Green Family style is a type of wucai called yingcai ("solid colours"), which is characterised by the predominance of copper oxide green. The name yingcai refers to the quality of the glazes, which are crystalline because they are mostly applied to the glaze.
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Perfumer. China, early 20th century. Painted porcelain. With seal on the base. Measurements: 11.3 x 7.5 x 4 cm. Perfume holder with a prismatic tank and cylindrical mouth. Its surface is decorated in the style of the Green Family, a Western term used to designate a style of Chinese polychrome porcelain derived from wucai (literally, 'five colours'). Wucai was created during the Ming dynasty, and has been widely used in China ever since. It is characterised by only some of the motifs being executed in cobalt-blue underglaze, while the rest of the decoration is applied already on the glaze. In addition, black glaze is added for the outlines, in early times covered with a translucent green glaze to fix it. The Green Family style is a type of wucai called yingcai ("solid colours"), which is characterised by the predominance of copper oxide green. The name yingcai refers to the quality of the glazes, which are crystalline because they are mostly applied to the glaze.
