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Subject:Re: Unusual squirrels & grapes rouleau vases
Posted By: Cal Sun, Oct 31, 2010
Is not brown and tan glazes, is enamel decoration also at least green and blue enamel.
Is not guan (official) ware, is just crackled background probably created by coating ware with slip slightly not compatible with ware, shrink different amount during firing/cooling, so produce crackle. That is first firing. Then enamel decoration added, fired again lower temperature.
Your modern decorative vases were inspired by Yuan-Ming underglaze blue decoration on crackled ware and by slight earlier brown-red (or tan) decoration northern cizhou-type ware, produced by first firing slip-coated whitish ware then paint with pigments different concentration iron to produce different shades during second firing. Yours probably not more than 10 years-old.
That orange-yellow enamel color is modern formula.
Squirrels-grapes not rare theme, found in painting, 20th century enamel on metal boxes, etc.
Good luck,
Cal
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