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Art Collection: 15th Century Blue-and-White Chinese Porcelain 50 weeks 3 days ago

From the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), the underglaze-blue ornamentation of porcelains had already achieved a level of maturity at Jingdezhen, in spite of blue-and-white not actually preferred as the prescribed court taste. During that time, the favored objects of the court and the literati-aristocracy were the monochromatic white family of qingbai and shufu wares which reigned in production. These two products and the blue-and-white ware called qinghua are all stylistically interconnected.

Carnival Glass: Imperial Glass Company 2 years 37 weeks ago

The Imperial Glass Company of Bellaire Ohio was founded by Edward Muhleman in 1902. They started making carnival glass the same time Northwood and Fenton did, in 1910. The first sheen they used to create an iridescent effect on the outside of their pressed glass was called “marigold iridescence.” A Bohemian glass decorator employed at the company created this process but failed to patent it. Within the next few years, Imperial made other iridescent glass in red, amethyst, blue, green, white, smoke, and a color known as “helios” which was a green and silver iridized color.

The 'Ceramic Interregnum' Facts: The Reigns of Zhengtong, Jingtai and Tianshun 50 weeks 3 days ago

Until lately, due to the lack of strong textual evidence and reliable reign-marked pieces created in the period of 1436 to 1464, it had been presumed by Western porcelain authorities, different than the views of Chinese scholars, that Jingdezhen potters carried on to create imperial-quality blue-and-white porcelain, which were given the nianhao of the former Xuande reign. Chinese specialists have long accepted the view that because it was absolutely forbidden to use a given nianhao after the death of the emperor to whose rule it implemented that it wasn’t in fact done.

The Silver Age of Blue-and-White Porcelain: Chenghua and Hongzhi Reign 50 weeks 3 days ago

When the imperial prohibitions were lifted in 1457, the Jingde potters resurrected the use of nianhao during the Chenghua (1465-87) and Hongzhi reigns. These two reigns comprise the ‘Silver Age’ of blue-and-white porcelains which, in the assessment of connoisseurs, have only been outperformed by works of the Xuande reign. The Chenghua emperor went up the throne as a child and as a young man showered huge amounts of treasures on his darling concubine, a capricious woman who had an exceptional passion for Jingde porcelain.

The Imperial Palace government 1 year 33 weeks ago

Every empire must have an Imperial Palace. To all those who doesn't know the purpose of an Imperial Palace then this is a place where the higher military officials conducts their meetings about the battle strategy and tactics. An a lord of your empire, you need to build an Imperial Palance especially if you are a Military focused empire.