"Blue and white pottery" covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration was commonly applied by hand, original
Jingdezhen soft paste porcelain vase with "Five Relationships" (wulun) design in underglaze blue, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662–1722), H. 33 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Islamic tin-glazed earthenware, with blue and white decoration, Iraq, 9th century. The Arabic calligraphy is ghibta, i.e. "happiness".
A blue and white stoneware plate with floral motif (cobalt-blue pigment over white slip), manufactured in kilns in Gongxian, Henan. Found in the Belitung shipwreck, dated c. 825–850, Tang dynasty.
Early blue and white ware, first half of 14th century, Jingdezhen
Delftware or Delft pottery, also known as Delft Blue or as delf, is a general term now used for Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, a form of faience. Most of it is blue and white pottery, and the city of D
Blue and white pottery
…began to be imported from Persia. It was widely exported and inspired imitative wares in Islamic pottery, Japan, European tin-glazed earthenware such as Delftware, and after the techniques were discovered in the 18th century, European porcelain. Blue and white pottery in all of these traditions continues to be…
Vase in a Japanese style, c. 1680, Delft
Window display of Delftware in the market place, Delft
"Armorial Dish" (wapenbord) by Willem Jansz. Verstraeten, c. 1645–1655, Haarlem
18th century Delftware, the plate at left with a Japanese scene