Page 146 - Chinese Porcelain Vol II, Galland

KANG-HE.
328
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Some mention should also be made of pieces, such as you
w
allude to on they are of various
p. 237, so-called Siamese ;
dates, and analogous to them are the porcelains with black
over the glaze grounds, manufactured by the Chinese for
markets in Persia or India. Of these last you make no mention ;
are rare, but exist. I think are classed
they they they by
Jacquemart as ' Japanese,' but they are Chinese all the same,
and no hard paste porcelain has ever been manufactured in
Persia, or indeed porcelain of any description, although a sort
of semi-translucent faience made in Persia has been sometimes
erroneously classed as porcelain.
"
I have once or twice been offered in Paris
myself pieces
'
of fine decorated with fine ' rinceaur and leaves in
porcelain
and enamel on an black
green pale yellow over-glaze ground.
These could not have been later than and were
Kien-lung,
probably earlier. These were Chinese pieces made for the
Persian market."
Pere d'Entrecolles : "Black has also its value
says porcelain
and beauty, and is called TJ-myen. This black is of a lead
kind, resembling that of our burning-glasses, and the gold
they add makes it yet more agreeable. The black colour is
laid on the china when it is dry, and for this purpose they mix
three ounces of azure with seven of common oil of stone. By
the trial one may know exactly the proportion, according as
the colour is to be more or less deep ; when it is dry, they
take the ware, after which the
they apply gold, and bake it
over in a furnace." Whether this is the same
again particular
as the black he refers to as it is difficult
U-king (see p. 361),
to ; but it is clear that more than one brilliant black
say glaze
was made the
during Kang-he period.
At a later date, Mr.
Winthrop, again referring to No. 563,
"
writes : To return to the Walter's collection of porcelain, my
black vases have in common with the black
nothing Kien-lung
vases the colour. the
except Again Kien-lung turquoise
porcelains differ from those of Kang-he in that their colour is
more vivid and more the colour of the Mexican in
turquoise
3 These Siamese pieces are now considered to have been made in North
Siam. They are very coarse in their texture when fractured, and therefore
unlike most Chinese ware; but still they have a Chinese feeling about
them. T. J. L.