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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 1615907, member: 12007&quot;]This is of course true with cold painted works, however this piece wasn&#039;t decorated that way. On Chinese porcelains (and obviously Japanese copies too) faces were quite often delineated in iron red with details picked out in grisaille. </p><p>This red, which is much softer then the surrounding colours, is not only fugitive but due to the softer composition it is far more susceptible to harsh cleaning so it never fares quite as well as the other enamels. </p><p>Even though this is a Japanese production, it is decorated identically to and imitates Chinese porcelain decoration of the time, even down to the type and colour of enamels used.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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