| Earliest decoration of porcelain was blue & white, hand painted in under glaze blue. This method is sometsuke in Japanese. Iroe also known as akae, is a colored porcelain. Both are decorated in over glazed colors. Nishiki-de means a style of a nishiki weaving which has multi color decoration with gold. When a porcelain has both under glaze blue and over glaze multi colors, this can be called as some-nishiki, a combination of two layers. |
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Iroe Bowl
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Sometsuke Plate