Understanding Colors in Mulberry China

Video Transcript

"So talking about Mulberry China, we are going to talk about the difference in the flow of the china when it was put on at the transfer and we are also going to talk about the color variation. We talked a little bit about how over the periods of time, the color will fade so you will find a variation that goes from a very deep mulberry to almost a black and you can see it in this pattern right here. This sugar pot, you can see a very heavy flow with a very dark mulberry. It is almost insignificant. You can not even make out the trees. It is such a big difference in the flow from this and if you look at another piece like this, you can see the distinct trees in the cup here and the patterns of the houses. So there is a huge difference in the flow from that time period between the 1820's and 1850's and there is a huge difference in the amount of color. As opposed to on the white base, you are going to see very little bit of dark to a heavy dark. You can see the difference in these two cups; just how much mulberry is in them and we will talk about the difference in color when we talk more about the pattern."