# Blanc de Chine × Delftware — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=blanc-de-chine+delftware
# Blanc de Chine carries the structure and Delftware appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Blanc de Chine (style, Ming dynasty–) and their accent from Delftware (style, 1600s–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Blanc de Chine exists for: finishing porcelain tableware or lighting with glaze depth alone, no print and no colour, or producing ceramic figures in quantity by combining piece moulds with hand-modelled details. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Blanc de Chine

- No painted decoration anywhere, so the surface stays a single white
- A thick glaze that shifts from milky to faintly blue, translucent where it thins
- Seams where separately modelled hands, fingers or drapery were pressed onto a moulded body
- Libation cups with a wide mouth and narrow base, copying a section of carved horn

Composition: Frontal standing figures on one vertical axis from base to crown, with empty space left around them. Type and lettering: Keep lettering off the surface, and put at most a small mark under the foot.

## Accent comes from Delftware, used sparingly

- Painting in blue alone
- White tin-glaze ground
- Eastern motifs translated
- From tiles to tableware

Let one material quality come from it: Cobalt on white tin glaze, painted in one pass with no correction.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #F6F1E7, carry the structure in #E4EBE8 and #D6C7AE, and let a single accent come from #8ba2b4. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: calm, luxury, technique, nostalgia.

## Where they fight

- Blanc de Chine and Delftware both belong to Ceramic Styles, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Blanc de Chine and Delftware stand roughly 232 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

## What goes wrong

- Blanc de Chine: Softening every ridge in the belief that white alone reads as refined removes the places where glaze pools, and the object flattens into a blank white lump.
- Delftware: Aiming to pass as real porcelain turns the thick earthenware body and the speed of the brush from virtues into faults.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/blanc-de-chine/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/delftware/design.md