Overglaze painting

A technical term for ceramics, it refers to the process of painting colored paints onto the glaze surface to create overglazed porcelain (also called akae, nishikide, or gosai). The name "overglaze" comes from the fact that the colored paints, which are a type of lead glaze, are applied with a paintbrush onto a base that has been coated with a transparent glaze. Various brushes are used for overglaze painting, but they can be broadly divided into thin brushes for drawing lines and thick brushes for filling in the colored surface. This overglaze painting began in China during the Jin dynasty, when overglaze painting first began, but the details of modern Chinese overglaze painting techniques are completely different from Japanese techniques.

[Yoshiaki Yabe]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

陶磁器の技術用語の一つで、色絵陶磁（赤絵、錦手(にしきで)、五彩ともいう）をつくる色絵の具を釉(ゆう)面に描く工程をさす。一種の鉛釉(えんゆう)である色絵の具を、透明釉の施された素地の上に絵筆を使ってのせるため上絵付の名がある。上絵付用には各種の筆が使われるが、線描(が)きの細い筆と、色面を塗りつめる濃染の太い筆とに大別される。この上絵付は色絵の発祥とともに中国で金(きん)時代に始められたが、現代中国の上絵付技と日本の技法とは細部ではまったく様相が相違してしまっている。

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