Delftware
デルフト焼 / 1600s– / Style / Ceramic Styles
Longing for Chinese porcelain, Delft produced tin-glazed pottery of its own. Windmills, ships and Eastern scenes painted in blue alone fixed 'blue and white' as a Western language of table and room, chinoiserie put into practice.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Painting in blue alone
- White tin-glaze ground
- Eastern motifs translated
- From tiles to tableware
Best used for
- Pulling tableware and walls into one room through blue painting alone
- Using Eastern motifs while admitting openly that they are translations
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Keep marks small on the underside and leave the face to painting
- Composition
- Let each tile stand alone, with corner motifs linking them into a field
- Material
- Cobalt on white tin glaze, painted in one pass with no correction
- Caution
- Aiming to pass as real porcelain turns the thick earthenware body and the speed of the brush from virtues into faults.
- Further study
- from imitating Jingdezhen to a style of its own / Delft tiles / Royal Delft today
Related entries
- Chinoiserie (シノワズリ)Shared effects: Luxury / Nostalgia.Compare Delftware and Chinoiserie
- Azulejo (アズレージョ)Shared effects: Calm / Luxury / Nostalgia.Compare Delftware and Azulejo
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