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Antique lamps – blue and white is always right!
Why is it so popular blue and white? Blue and white has been popular for hundreds of years, with his new call to never be fashionable. It is interesting, but when it comes to blue and white, almost always think of blue and white "china", ie ceramic and porcelain. The evolution of this always popular, blue and white is a fascinating story ….
Chinese porcelain was first discovered during the Tang Dynasty Dynasty, 618 AD – 906 AD. By the mid 14th century during the Ming Dynasty, Jingdezhen has imperial patronage and was the most important center for porcelain production in the world. It was, in fact, the only place that could produce "true" or hard porcelain paste.
The "secret" of blue and white is cobalt, a natural mineral, then confined to Persia, now Iran. Persia, or rather, Kashan, located near Tehran, held a monopoly the valuable cobalt mined in the hills around Kashan.
The Persian cobalt decoration white, tin-glazed earthenware and, indeed, Kashan was an important center for the manufacture and distribution of ceramics throughout the Middle East. In this case we are talking about a world in ninth and tenth century, completely unrecognizable to us today with our instant everything and all over the world, just hours away! At present, trade between countries is slow, dangerous and difficult, a trade caravan, usually takes a year to return.
Trade caravans from Persia first introduced to Chinese to Persian cobalt, soon to be known in China as "Persian Blue", the mineral soil cobalt blue to a dark black fine powder. Chinese potters were excited and excited about this new product and trade began in earnest with rolls of silk exchanged small parcels of Persian blue.
This trade between China and Persia, no doubt prompted the Chinese ceramic decoration in a new direction, with the first blue and white porcelain made really about 1290 AD.
It was during this period that pottery decorators were experiencing, especially with the cooking techniques, such as cobalt may be unstable, with the effect the more or less shot that is one reason that this kind of painting very early Chinese blue and white is incomplete with washy pale blue instead.
The term "Hard paste" porcelain actually refers to "fire hard" or that require high temperature furnaces capable of raising temperatures up to 1250 ° C / 2300 ° F so that the vitrified porcelain with a hard, white, translucent result is called porcelain.
While the porcelain was her childhood in China, glazed earthenware tin are occurring throughout the Middle East. This was glazed, (a glassy layer on the surface of a ceramic body) with a mixture of lead oxide / tin gave an opaque white background, perfect as a canvas for decoration of cobalt blue. The goods were typically painted in style Islamic geometric patterns, palms, stylized Arabic script and flowers. Syria was famous for its beautiful blue and white tiles and Turkey, for its impressive Iznik pottery blue and white.
Turkey blue and white is known as "frit ware" and is believed to have been discovered in Kashan, in Persia. Fried ceramic was a kind of artificial, or "soft paste" porcelain, soft paste refers to a "low heat" or lower temperature. Blue and white Iznik is freely painted in shades of blue with naturalistic themes of the vine fruits, birds and animals.
Both the Turks and Persians admired the blue and white porcelain imported from China and many of the surviving examples today of Frit software are decorated in Chinese style.
By the 17th century, Chinese porcelain blue and white was "discovered" by European traders and that was the fleet of adventure, the Portuguese commercial shipping is delivered first shipment of blue and white of Amsterdam. The first shipments were recorded in 1602 and 1604. Portuguese traders were surprised to find that their cargo was sold out before you know it and realized they could sell porcelain boat much as I could!
This early 17th century market demand was so high that completely reorganized the production and decoration of ceramics Europe. Remember that at this time porcelain was not made out of China and Europe was "porcelain crazy," fascinated with this new exciting product of this exotic place that hardly anyone knew anything about it.
The European home software standard at the time was mud in its variety of forms. Tin glazed earthenware was known as Delft, the Netherlands, as in France, but known as china and called Maiolica in Italy. In England, enameled tin items was also known as Delft, ie, Delft London, Bristol, Delft etc and best of all, Delft Irish. These works of European ceramics is composed of many, very small workshops ceramics generally involve a family or with one or two potters employees.
With the "secret" of the porcelain to be discovered in Saxony in 1703, mid 18th century, many European plants from small to large producers of porcelain and at the end of this century, a mass production level was achieved.
In England, so that porcelain began in Worcester and Chelsea in London from 1748, with most of these manufacturers to produce blue and white Decorated in Chinese style. This was based on the fact that the market was, for now, so conditioned to the imported Chinese blue and white shops soon began to feel the pressure of the imported Chinese porcelain. This encouraged the potters to decorate their products in China's most popular styles, as manufacturers simply had to produce what the buying public recognizes. Today we can admire these sometimes very sophisticated "Chinoiserie" decorations.
In 1792 -1796 rights government import increased to reduce the volume of imported goods and this gave him great encouragement to the local market. This boost to the ceramic industry result in the development of new techniques to increase production.
The English pottery industry in Staffordshire is now focused, where hundreds of factories operated. It is also at this point, the end of the 18th century, we see the introduction of transfer printing in blue beneath the mud ceramic ceramic tiles and the recent introduction.
The transfer printing technique involved a raised image of a charged ink, engraving, plate copper, the image of being "transferred" in a handkerchief. The ink wet tissue was placed on the surface of white ceramic and transfer the image.
The tissue was carefully lifted away, or alternatively, the ceramic piece was sacked and burned tissue in the oven.
Josiah Spode was given credit the invention of transfer printing glaze, with his first attempts dating back to 1784. His first attempts involved printing on enamel, but impressions had begun to decline. Over time, Spode refined his technique by transferring the print on the surface without glaze, firing, to fix the image, enameling and annealing! The results were stunning and the road was opened for one of the more successful episodes in the history of ceramics.
More prints the late 18th and early 19th Chinoiserie kept their characteristics before, overlooking the River Chinese pagodas and Chinese landscapes. This transitional period produced a very fine combination of impressions. Not only were these in a purely Chinese, but also became a "Chinglish" style, giving resulted in some fun combinations such as a pair of English walking through a Chinese landscape. By about 1835, however, prints were predominantly English / Europe, with views of British country houses, agricultural scenes, birds and flowers.
1840 printed by mud blue and white was a well-established and demand for printed goods manufacturers to work to keep up. Great opened new export markets for American industry, Continental Europe and India.
As the 19th century progressed, the story of blue and white, begins to change direction. As with all forms of artistic expression, either ceramic, art or music, the furthest from the original, the biggest changes to be.
Mass production and promotion of export markets certainly reduces the quality, with production geared to rapid production and pays less attention to its artistic merit. As we move through the second half of the 19th century, we see that the overall decline in the quality of blue and white transfer printed pottery.
A kind of blue and white, in particular caught the attention of the American market. "Blue Stream" was introduced around 1840 and the U.S. market fell for your prints darker, rather confused related to this product.
An interesting story tells of how, dark blue, there was more ink. Is said to have been the result of an accident when a chemical solution was accidental spread slimming goods ready for firing. After cooking, staff were surprised to see the result, finally, to be known as the blue flow. By the 19th century, flow blue was on the table almost every American family and Today, it remains a favorite for U.S. collectors.
The beautiful blue and white printed pottery produced during the 19th century, is today a topic delight collectors around the world. Purely functional ware, blue and white is now in place at the end of 18 and 19 century pottery and never transfer printers dreamed.
Not only is blue and white, very collected, but now serves as a focal point in many interior design plans and if you ever have the opportunity to see a blue and white room, you'll know why! Parts carefully placed and arranged the furniture, if possible at the time, can be a sight to behold.
The display of blue and white is traditionally regarded as the best seen on a yellow background. Yellow not only praise, both the original projects, but also the white china or porcelain. These combine to produce a beautiful display. When an old lamp blue and white is added, the aspect is really amazing!
It is a further benefit offered by blue and white. Behavioral psychologists have studied the effects of how we perceive color and how it can affect our moods and attitudes. On the theme of blue and white, the conclusions are that we see this color combination as a perfect balance is recognized as a calming, relaxing and serene and is recommended for any place in which you want to be relaxed. What more can you say?
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