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Wucai (五彩, "Five colours", "Wuts'ai" in Wade-Giles) is a style of decorating white Chinese porcelain in a limited range of colours. It normally uses underglaze cobalt blue for the design outline and some parts of the images, and overglaze enamels in red, green, and yellow for the rest of the designs.
Famille verte (康熙五彩, Kangxi wucai, also 素三彩, Susancai), adopted in the Kangxi period around 1680, uses green in a few different shades and iron red with other overglaze colours. It developed from the wucai (五彩, "five colours") style, which combines underglaze cobalt blue with a few overglaze colours.
Wucai plate, Chinese export porcelain, Kangxi period c. 1680 Painters' workshop at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in Vienna c. 1830 Porcelain painting in Weimar, Germany in 1989. China painting, or porcelain painting, [a] is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects, such as plates, bowls, vases or statues.
The cup is classified as a wucai ware, meaning the cup features five colours. [10] The cup is decorated in softly toned underglaze blue washes and features contrasting overglazes and outline elements in green, iron red, yellow, turquoise and pale aubergine coloured enamels which are bright and transparent. [21]
Vase with landscape, mid-century Dragon dish, Late Ming, c. 1640. Transitional porcelain is Jingdezhen porcelain, manufactured at China's principle ceramic production area, in the years during and after the transition from Ming to Qing.
A selection of falangcai porcelains Bowl with peacock in falangcai painted enamels, Yongzheng reign. National Palace Museum. The origin of famille rose is not entirely clear. It is believed that this colour palette was introduced to the Imperial court in China by Jesuits, achieved through the use of purple of Cassius, initially on enamels used on metal wares such as cloisonné produced in the ...
A type of xiangyun which was perceived as being especially auspicious is the five-coloured clouds, called qingyun (庆云; 慶雲; qìngyún), which is more commonly known as wuse yun (五色云; 五色雲; wǔsèyún; 'five colour cloud') or wucai xiangyun (五彩祥云; 五彩祥雲; wǔcǎi xiángyún; 'Five-coloured auspicious clouds ...
It is not to be confused with the wucai style, which was a related early technique for polychrome painting. [3] Doucai can be translated as "contrasted colours", [4] "fitted colours", [5] "colours which fit together" [6] or "dove-tailed colours". [7] Bowl with dragon chasing flaming pearl, Kangxi reign, 1662–1722