peach bloom

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Scope note
Copper-based glaze that shows as blushes of red, occasionally dotted with fine green spots on a pinkish-red ground. It can give the effect of blushing skin or ripening fruit. It was an innovation if the Qing dynasty at Jingdezhen, and appears most often on small ceramics.
peach bloom
Accepted term: 02-Dec-2024