chuihong

pottery
Also known as: ch’ui hung

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Chinese pottery decoration

  • Hohokam pottery
    In pottery: Coloured glazes

    …Chinese as “blown red” (chui hong). It was certainly used as a monochrome in early Ming times and possibly even earlier, and is the direct ancestor of the showy flambé glazes (yao bian) of the Qianlong period that are often vividly streaked with unreduced copper blue.

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sang de boeuf

  • Porcelain bottle decorated with a sang de boeuf, or flambé glaze, 18th century, Qing dynasty; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
    In sang de boeuf

    …in the Qing dynasty, and chuihong, or “blown red” glaze ware, became popular. The langyao porcelain of the Qing dynasty was imitated in Europe, especially in the porcelain factory at Sèvres, France, which produced a substantial amount of sang de boeuf in the late 19th century. The process was also…

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