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Incised

Insised anhua decoration on Chinese Kosometsuke

Incised "anhua" decoration on Chinese minyao Kosometsuke, late Ming, 17th century.
Photo; JE Nilsson Coll. 2023

Method of decoration utilizing a sharp instrument while drawing or creating a pattern. Common on Chinese pottery and porcelain from particularly the Song Dynasty (960-1279) when subtlety was preferred to "garish" colored decoration. Typically incised decoration is imitated by press moulding already in the following Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368).

After this period decorations are predominantly done by painting with underglaze cobalt.

However, see also: Anhua

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