Painting terms

Strokes

Feibai - Flying white: strokes where the hairs of the brush separate and leave white spaces
Cun - 'Wrinkles': different types of brush stroke
Pimacun - Hemp-fibre strokes
Yudiancun - Rain-drop strokes
Fupicun - Axe-cut strokes

Different media

Juanben - Work on silk
Zhiben - Work on paper

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Castiglione, Giuseppe (1688-1766)
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Chen Guozhi (ca. 1800-1860)
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Chess, Chinese weiqi
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Children, Hundred
China
China burners ceramic repair
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Chinese dynasty
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Chocolate pot
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Cincinnati, Order of the
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Cizhou ware
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Collectible
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Composition, asymmetric in Asian Art
Condition reports and descriptions
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Cong
Congee bowl
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Crackle
Crane
Crazing
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Crest
Cricket
Cross-section
Crow
"Cuckoo in the house" pattern
Cultural Revolution
Cuspidor
Cyclical Dates

Daoism (Taoism)
Dawenkou culture (c. 4300–2600 BCE)
Dayazhai motif
Decalcomania
Deer
Deer, Hundred
Dehua kilns
Delft
Details, for authentications
Deutsche blumen
Devil's work
Diaper pattern
Ding (Ting) ware
Dog
Dong Qichang (1555-1636)
Donkey
Double happiness
Double gourd
Doucai
Dragon (Long)
Dragon and Phoenix (Long Feng)
Dragon boat
Dragonware
Du Halde
Du Paquier
Duck
Duff, Govenor, and his wife
Dunzhi
Dynasties, of China

Earthenware
East India Company
East Indiaman NEW
Edo period (Japan)
'Egg and Spinach'
Eggshell porcelain
Eight Buddhist Symbols
Eight Daoist Emblems
Eight Daoist Immortals
Eight Friends of Zhushan
Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
Eight Horses of Wang Mu
Eight Natural Phenomena
Eight Precious Things
Eight Trigrams
Enamel decoration
Enamels
Encre de Chine
Endless knot
D'Entrecolles, Pére Francois Xavier
Équelle
Eumorfopoulos, G.A. (1863-1939)
Export porcelain
Extant
Eyes

Fahua
Faience
Fake
Falangcai
Famille jaune
Famille noire
Famille rose
Famille verte
Fan
Fat Lady
Faux (imitating) materials
Fencai
Feng bird (phoenix)
Festoon
Fete champetre (Fr.)
Figures, decapitated
Fire support marks
Firing in reducing atmosphere
Firing in oxidizing atmosphere
Fish
FitzHugh
Five
Five Sages Yin Yang
Five Blessings
Five Dynasties
Five Elements
Five Poisonous Creatures
Five Relations(Wu lun)
Flag of China
Flambé glazes
Flatware
Floating world (Jp.)
Flower Friends Theme
Flowers of the month, Seasonal
Fluted
Foliated
Foo (Fu) dogs
Foot, ring
Forbidden city
Fostat
Four Elements
Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty
Four Modernizations
Four Noble Plants (The Four Gentlemen (Sì Jūnzǐ)
Four Scholarly Accomplishments
Four Treasures, The Scholars
Fresh red glaze
Fritting
Fu
Fujian blue and white
Fu, Lu, Shou
Fukagawa
Fushao

Gadroon
Gaiwan, Chinese tea cup
Gama (Jp.)
Garden rock
Garniture set
Ge
Geisha girl
Gilding
Giles, James
Glass, Chinese (Peking Glass)
Glaze
Gold repair
God of Longevity
Gongbi zhongcai
Gosu blue (Jp.)
Grafting faking technique, jie-di
Graviata
Grisaille
Guan
Guandi God of War
Guangdong
Guanyin
Guinomi and Sakazuki sake cups (Jp.)
Guozhi
Guqin
Guyuexuan
Gypsum

Hair bun
Halberd 'ji'
Halo effect
Han dynasty
Hannya mask (Jp.)
Happiness, Double
Happinesses, Hundred
Hare
Hart, Sir Robert
Hasegawa, Keiko (b.1941)
Hatching, cross-hatching
Hatstand
Hausmalerei
Headgear
"Heaped and piled"
Heavenly Horse
Heron
Heroes, Table of PeerlessWu Shuang Pu
High fired
Hirado
Hoi an Hoard, shipwreck cargo
Hollow line
Homophonic motifs
Hong Kong
Horse
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Hu (Storage jar)
Huang Gongwang
Huanghuali
Huashi 'slippery stone' NEW
Hundred Antiques
Hundred Pleasures
Hundred Treasures

Igezara (Jp.)
IHS
Imari, Japanese
Imari, Chinese
Imperial designs, Ming and Qing
Imperial workshops in Beijing
Incised
Ink painting
Interregnum (1436-1464)
Int. Exhb. of Chinese Art 1935-36
Iridescence
Iron rust monochrome glaze
Islamic Art

Jade
Jade dog figure
Jade Emperor
Jade Hall(Yu Tang)
Jadeite
Japanese celadon
Japanese chronology
Japanese Gods and Goddesses
Japanese porcelain - yaki
Jesuits
Jian yao
Jigger and Jolly
Jihong
Jilan
Jin dynasty
Jin Pinqing
Jingdezhen
Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874-1960)
Johanneum marks
"Joss"
"Journey to the West"
Ju (Ru) ware
Judgement of Paris (decoration)
Jun glaze
Ju Ren Tang

Kaga ware
Kaishu script
Kakiemon
Kannon
Kangxi revival
Kaolin
Karako (Jp.)
Karako ware (Jp.)
Karakusa (Jp.)
Karatsu ware (Jp.)
Karlbeck (1879-1967), Orvar
Kendi
Kendi Maling
Kensui (Jp.)
Kenzan, Ogata (1663-1743) (Jp.)
Kiln
Kiln, porcelain firing
Kiln implements and furniture
Kinrande (Jp.)
Kitchen Qing
Klapmuts
Ko-Imari(Jp.)
Ko-sometsuke(Jp.)
Korea
Koro (Jp.)
Kowtow
"Kraak" porcelain
Kui dragon
Kundika
Kutani ware (Jp.)
Kwangtung ware
Kyo-yaki (Jp.)

Lacquer
Laque burgauté
Lai Thieu Ceramics (Vietnam)
Landscape Painting in Chinese Art
Langkiln
Lang Tingji (1663–1715)
Lang yao hong Copper red
Lang Shining
Lantern festival
Laub und Bandelwerk
Laughing Buddha
Lavender blue monochrome glaze
Leach, Bernard (b.1887)
LeadGlaze
Leather hard
Leiwen
Lena junk c. 1490
Liao (916-1125)
Li Bai (701–762)
Liling kiln
Lime
Linru kiln
Ling long porcelain
Lingzhi
Lion
Lip
Literati
Literati Art
Lithophane
Liuli tiles
Lobe
Long Eliza
Long Men (Dragon’s Gate) jumping
Longquan wares
Lotus
Lowestoft
Low fired glazes
Lozenge
Luanbai glaze
Lug handles
Luohan
Lustre
Lustre ware
Luting

Magnolia
Magpie
Magu, Goddess
Maiolica
Majiayao Culture
Manchu
Mandarins
Mandarin ducks
Mandarin China
Mandate of Heaven
Mandorla
Manila (fibers)
Manila Galleon Trade (1565–1815)
Moutai or Maotai
Marbled ware
Mark and Period
Marriage
Marseille
Martaban
Marquetry (Wood decoration)
Master of Rocks
Matriarch
Mazarine blue
Mc Kinley Tariff Act (1890)
Meander
Medici porcelain
Medicine, Chinese
Merian, Maria Sibylla (1647-1717)
Meiji period (Jp.)
Meiping
Meissen KPM
Metal clad rims
Mid-autumn festival
Mille Fleur
Minton, Thomas ( -1836)
Ming dynasty
Mingqi
Mino ware (Jp.)
Minyao
Mirror black monochrome glaze
Mirror, bronze
Mirror-image decorations
Mizusashi (Jp.)
Molding (Moulding)
Momoyama Period (Jp.)
Mon (Jp.)
Mongol
Monk's-cap ewer
Monochrome
Monochromic decorations
Month cups
Moon Festival
Morgan Vase 1886
Moriage
Mottahedeh
Mountains, sacred
Mudmen
Mudra
Mulan (Fa Mu Lan)
Mustard Seed Garden

Nabeshima ware (Jp.)
Nanking
Nara period (Jp.)
Narcissus (Winter sweet)
Natsume tea caddy (Jp.)
Neoclassicism
Nephrite
Nianhao
Netsuke (Jp.)
Nieuhof
Nippon (Jp.)
Noritake (Jp.)
Northern and Southern Dynasties
Nose drinking cups
Noshi (Jp.)
Nonya (Nyonya) ware
Numbers

Occupied Japan
Oil lamp
On fakes
Opium
Orchid
Oribe yaki (Jp.)
Ornament
Orange peel
Oriole
Osmanthus flower
Ouroboros
Owl
Ox
Ox blood
Oxidation firing

Pagoda
Painted or printed decorations
Painting, Chinese
Painting styles
Painting terms
Painting themes
Painting types
Paktong
Pak choi/Bok choi (White cabbage)
Palace bowls
Palace 'Peking' bowls
Paneling, shapes and borders in porcelain
Papier des Indes (Fr.)
Paring
Paste
Pâte-sur-pâte
Patty pan
Peach
Peach-bloom glaze
Peerless Heroes, Table ofWu Shuang Pu
Pei hok ("Skin and shell")
Penglai Islands
Peony
Peranakan
Pere d'Entrecolles
Petuntse
Pheasant
Phoenix
Picture Archive (under work)
Piecrust rim -Igezara (Jp.)
Pig
Pine
Pinyin romanization system
Pipa
Plants and Fruits
Plate
Plum blossom
Poirier, Simon-Philippe (1720-1785)
Polychrome
Pomegranate
Porcelain
Porcelain clay
Porcelain pagoda
Porcelain paste
Posset Pot
Potiche
Pottery parts and shapes
Powder blue
Precious things
Printed or painted decorations
Prima facie (Lat.)
Proto-porcelain
Provenance
Prunus
Pronk
Puce
Puyi (1906-1976)

Qi
Qianjiang (pale umber) style
Qilin (Unicorn)
Qilung
Qin
Qin Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
Qingbai
Qinghua
Quail
Queen Mother of the West
Queue (or Pigtail)

Rat
Raku (Jp.) ware
Ram
Raven
Red
Red Cliff, Ode on the
Reducing kiln atmosphere
Reeding
Ren Bonian (1840-96) (Painter)
Regout
Register
Reliquary
Repoussé
Republic of China (1912-1949)
Reticulated
Rice grain porcelain
Ricci, Matteo (1552-1610)
Rims, ceramic shapes

Robin's Egg Glaze
Rock
Rococo
Rolwagen
Romance of the Western Chamber
Rooster
Rose Medallion
Rouge-de-fer
Rouleau
Royal Nanhai Cargo
Rubruck, William of
Ru (Ju) ware
Rubbing
Ruby back
Ruby glaze
Ruyi

Sacred disc
Sacrificial blue
Sacrificial red
Saggar
Samson
Samurai (Jp.)
São Tiago, Carrack, 1602
Sancai
Sanduo NEW
Sander, or pounce pot
Sang de boeuf
Satsuma ware (Jp.)
Scepter
Scholar's objects
Schreger pattern
Seal
Seal mark
Seal script
Sepia
Seto ware
Setters
Seven appearances
Seven Gods of Luck (Jp.)
Seven Sages
Seven Stars Constellation
Sgraffito
Shang Ping vase shape
Shapes, ceramic
Sheep
Shende Tang
Shichi-fuku-jin (Jp.)
Shippo
Shipwreck ceramics
Shipwreck 1450, Royal Nanhai
Shipwreck 1608, Bin Thuan
Shipwreck 1730-35, Ca Mau
Shipwreck 1745, Gotheborg
Shipwreck 1751, Geldermalsen
Shipwreck 1817, Diana
Shipwreck 1821, Tek Sing
Shipwreck 1845, Desaru
Shonsui wares
Shou
Shou Lao
Shufu ware
Shuicai enamels
Shinto (Jp.)
Shuangxi (Double Happiness)
Silica
Silk Road
Silkworm chrysalis
Six Canons of Painting
Six Dynasties Period (220-589)
Slip
Slip casting
Snuff
Snake
Snuff bottle
Soapstone
Soba Choko
Soft paste porcelain, Chinese
Soufflé blue
Shochikubai (Jp.)
Song
Spice dish
Spirit bottles
Spode, Joshua (1733-1797)
Spriggs
Spur marks
Staffordshire
Steatite
Stencil decoration
Stoneware
Straits Chinese
Straits Chinese Porcelain
Sui dynasty (581-617)
Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)
Sumida Pottery (Jp.)
Susancai
Swallow
Swastika
Swag
Swatow ware
Sweet white (Tianbai) Glaze
Symbolism
Symbols: Animals
Symbols, explained

Taisho period (Jp.)
Taoism
Taotie
Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Tang Ying (Tang Yao, 1728-56)
Tazza
Tea Caddy
Tea Pot
Tea-dust glaze
Temmoku (Jian ware)
Ten Bamboo Studio
Terracotta
Terracotta Army
Thailand, Ceramics
Thousand flower pattern
Three Friends of Winter
Three Kingdoms
Three Stargods(San xing)
Throwing
Tianbai (Sweet white) Glaze
Tiffin
Tiger
Tiger and Dragon
Tingqua (1809-1870) studio
Tin-glazed earthenware
Ting wares
TL-test
Tobacco leaf pattern
Tobi Seiji (Jp.)
Tokkuri (Jp.)
Tokugawa (Jp.)
Toleware or Tole
Tong
Tortoise and Snake
Tradescant jar
Transfer printing
Transitional period
Trigrams, the eight
Triptych
Trowulan
Tulip
Turning
Turquoise glaze
Tutanego
Twelve Ornaments

Ukiyo-e, Jp. wood blocks
Undercut
Underglaze Blue and White
Underglaze decoration
Urna

Vajra
Valentine Pattern
Verbiest, Ferdinand (1623-1688)
Vitreous
VOC (1602-1798)

Wabi-sabi (Jp.)
Wade-Giles romanization system
Wagener, Gottfried (1830-92)
Wang Bingrong (c. 1820-1875)
Wanshou Wujiang
War God, Guandi
Wang Zhaojun
War scenes
Ware
Warping
Wash
Waster
Waves
Wedging
Wen and Wu principles
Western Chamber, The Romance of the
Wood
Wood block printing
Wu, State of
Wu School of Chinese Art
Wucai
Wudi, God of War
Wu Li (1632-1718)
Wu Shuang Pu 'Peerless Heroes'
Wutong tree
Wuxing Five elements

Xianhong Ming Copper-red
Xieyi
Xiwangmu

Yakimono (Jp.)
Yao
Yaozhou ware
Yin and Yang
Yangcai
Yingqing glaze
Yixing (Buccaro)
Yuan dynasty (1260-1368)
Yuan Ming Yuan Garden
Yue yao (Yue ware)
Yunnan blue and white

Zen Buddhism
Zhangzhou ware
Zhiding
Zhong Kui (Jap:Shoki)
Zhou Dynasty
Zhuanshu
Zisha
Zither
Zodiac

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