Falangcai

Falangcai — "foreign enamel colours" — is painted enamel on white porcelain. It was first made for the Qing court in the early eighteenth century, when European enamel painting inspired palace workshops to paint enamels on porcelain made in Jingdezhen.

How it is made

The white porcelain is fired first. The painter then mixes each enamel colour by hand and lays it on with a fine brush. Each colour is fixed in its own low-temperature firing, so a piece may pass through the kiln several times before it is finished, and a slip in a late firing can lose the work entirely.

At Xiong Jianjun Kiln

[How the kiln came to falangcai and the master's part in reviving it — to be written from the kiln's verified materials.]