Vase, Mirror black monochrome glaze, 18th century.
Ex: Jan-Erik Nilsson Collection.
Photo: courtesy of Mike Vermeer, 2014
Mirror black monochrome glaze. Late Qing dynasty.
Photo: courtesy of Mike Vermeer, 2014
Among the high-fired black monochromes of the Kangxi period (1662-1722), the most famous is a lustrous, dense black glaze that was derived from iron, cobalt, and manganese oxides.
It is called wujin ("black bronze') by the Chinese and is commonly known in the West as mirror-black.
These brilliant mirror-black wares have frequently been penciled over in gilt. Because of the extremely fugitive nature of such gilt decoration, it has often disappeared, leaving only the ghost of a pattern that can be seen when a light is raked over the glaze.
Se also enamels
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