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1 November 2025

  • curprev 20:3820:38, 1 November 2025 ChineseAdmin talk contribs 3,427 bytes +3,427 Created page with "'''Wucai ware''' (五彩, literally “Five Colors”) refers to porcelain decorated with a combination of underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels. The ware was developed at Jingdezhen during the Ming dynasty and continued through the Qing period. Wucai decoration is characterized by a structural division between underglaze linework defining compositional boundaries and overglaze enamels providing chromatic fields after a second, lower-temperature firing...."