# Blanc de Chine (ブラン・ド・シーヌ（徳化白磁）) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.508 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/blanc-de-chine
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Blanc de Chine, a style from Ceramic Styles, Ming dynasty–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style 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 images.

## What has to be visible

- 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

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: 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
- Material and surface: Fine white porcelain clay under a thick clear glaze with no pigment, so light and shade come only from where the glaze pools and thins
- Colour: #F6F1E7 carries the ground, #E4EBE8 is the colour the style is remembered by, #D6C7AE holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: calm, luxury, technique

## What goes wrong

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.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers 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 language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/blanc-de-chine/design.md