Types of Blue & White China

Video Transcript

"When collecting historical blue I just wanted to show you the difference between the historical blue pattern and the flow blue pattern same period were talking about 1820's-1850's. Here you have a piece of historical blue with really distinct detail and clarity and color you can make out the shapes very well. Here you can see the flow blue pattern which is actually is flowing and you can see the pattern but you can't make it out what the detail is. Theres a large difference but you can see the difference between collecting flow blue as oppose to collecting historical blue. I'll also show you that flow bowl is almost dark blue and highly distinguishable between the pattern, this is Formosa pattern this is Manila pattern and it's very heavy in blue. You can see it in the cup to it's very heavy hard to even make out the pattern where as oppose to this cup which we just should you. Very very clear and very light compared to the weight of this iron stone this is much lighter paste like consistency compared to this heavy iron stone that you see in the flow blue. Another example here the plate if you look at this plate very clear on the back a nice plate with great condition in the flow blue. But when you turn it over you can see there's still this heavy blue compared to a plate like this where you see this distinct color and you see very small detail on the faces these people. You can see the crawfish the crawfish at the bottom of the plate in the faces are made out and the arms you can see there hands, where as in this there's a building but you can't really see the details at all. So there is a difference between the flow blue and the historical blue so that's something to look for when your talking about 2 different types of tableware during the same period but very different."