Pennsylvania Museum BulletinNumber 29, January 1910 . L IMOGES ENAMELSMvibuted to Monvaerni Late Fifteenth Century The colors of the enamels, which are dull and subdued in tone, include anopaque, medium blue, transparent golden browns, clarets and greens. Theflesh of all the figures is painted in white, and the effect of gold in the aureolesurrounding the risen Saviours head is produced by the bright copper showingthrough a colorless enamel. 12 J5ULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM A RARE PERSIAN PLAQUE The Museum has acquired a large Persian plaque of the seventeenthcentury, covered with the r
Pennsylvania Museum BulletinNumber 29, January 1910 . L IMOGES ENAMELSMvibuted to Monvaerni Late Fifteenth Century The colors of the enamels, which are dull and subdued in tone, include anopaque, medium blue, transparent golden browns, clarets and greens. Theflesh of all the figures is painted in white, and the effect of gold in the aureolesurrounding the risen Saviours head is produced by the bright copper showingthrough a colorless enamel. 12 J5ULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM A RARE PERSIAN PLAQUE The Museum has acquired a large Persian plaque of the seventeenthcentury, covered with the rare and highly prized celadon, or martabani glaze,which is believed to be the finest example of its kind in this country. The word Celadon has come to be extensively used to indicate a sage-green or sea-green color, which is found on stoneware and porcelain producedin China, and potter)- made in other eastern countries. It was derived fromthe name of a character in a pastoral romance, entitled LAstree, written by. LARGE POTTERY PLAQUEMartabani Glaze With White Pate-sur-Pate TraceriesWhite Star With Blue DesignPersian, Seventeenth Century BULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM 13 Honore dUrfe early in the seventeenth century. Celadon, a shepherd, wasrepresented on the stage in a grayish-green costume, of the same tone as theancient green-glazed wares to which reference has been made. The Chinese name for this peculiar green glaze is ching tzu, while theJapanese call it sciji. The Arabs and Persians have given it the nameMartabani, for the reason that the ware of this character was originallysupposed to have been made at Martaban, in ancient Siam. Celadon stoneware was produced extensively at several places in Chinaduring the Sung (960-1279) and subsequent dynasties—at Kai-feng-fu, inHonan; at Lung-chuan-hsien ; at Chu-chou-fu, in the province of Chekiang;at Liu-tien; also in Corea and Siam, and more recently in Canton andChing-te-chen, China, and in Japan. Many theories have been
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