Discoloration in Blue & White China

Video Transcript

"When collecting historical blue some of the conditions we are going to look at today we are going to show you some of the discoloration and the difference of the discoloration if you can look and see inside of this sugar bowl you can see there is a browning staining discoloration. And it has not really effected the outside of the pot but on the inside of the pot you can see where that glaze is broken down. Were is on this sugar bowl I'm going to show you the inside where there is some discoloration but not as much and you can see a big difference between the 2. It is nice to be able to compare the two because that is going to effect the bottom line when you are buying a piece like this you are going to look how discolored these pieces are. I have another example that I can show you here on this plate the front of the plate looks really good and the condition is really pretty good for it's age no chipping and cracking and there is not really lot of discoloration. When you turn the plate around you can see the craving and the discoloration still the plate is in really nice condition no chips, no lines, no cracks but you can see a craving that is going on and that is typical of the age. But when it really starts to discolor you'll see the difference I can show you a example of the back of another plate here just looking at in the front this got a nice crisp color to and in good condition with great detail and you turn it around and this is very clear has some crazing in it you can see where there are little lines that it is very typical of age. The aging of the piece but there is no browning or discoloration in it so those are two examples of one very clean plate and one not so clean. Those are 2 examples of coloring that you should watch for when collecting these plates."