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Summary: There are a variety of different colors of blue and white china dishes; learn about the variations and more in this free video guide to antique & collectible plates.
Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19th century antique country...read more
"One of the thing we are going to talk about here today is the color you would find that historical blue is a very crisp clean color. There is not there is some flowing of color but not at all what you see in the Mulberry in flow blue with the flow blue and the mulberry it tends to run on the design where on these designs you are going to see very distinct color and very distinct shapes. You can see that right here with the bird, the bird is very clear, the pattern behind it is very clear with the flowers up on top. So you can see that there is a very large difference between this and collecting flow blue of the mulberry patterns. You can see here very distinct shades of color that are very crisp and very clear and each pattern in series you would see it has a mark. Some of the clue patterns in particular you could see that the borders they have very distinct borders that distinguish that one pattern from another so we would talk a little bit more about that but you can see that there is very distinct objects here that you can make out very clearly people in the back ground here with trees and shells and seaweeds patterns here. So when you are looking at the historical blue you are going to be able notice that you are going to be able to tell the difference right off by just looking at the clarity of the color."
eHow Article: Colors of Blue & White China
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