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‖ wu ts'ai|wu tsai|
Also wucai, Wu ts'ai.
[Chinese wŭcăi, f. wŭ five + căi colour.]
Polychrome; polychrome decoration in enamels applied to porcelain; porcelain with polychrome decoration esp. of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
1904E. Dillon Porcelain vii. 101 We come again to a pentad of colour—not, however, quite the same as the wu-tsai of Wan-li times. 1906S. W. Bushell Chinese Art II. viii. 32 The ordinary class of polychrome (wu ts'ai) decoration of the Ming period. 1915R. L. Hobson Chinese Pott. & Porc. II. ii. 8 There are the beautiful barrel-shaped seats, some with openwork ground, the designs filled in with colours (wu ts‘ai). 1964M. Medley Handbk. Chinese Art 88/1 Wu-ts‘ai.., a term applied to porcelains of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties decorated in overglaze enamel colours, and often with coarsely-handled under-glaze blue. 1971L. A. Boger Dict. World Pott. & Porc. 115/1 Wu ts'ai, which is practically a Chinese way of saying polychrome, is most commonly applied to a decoration comprising designs painted in enamel colors. 1980Catal. Fine Chinese Ceramics (Sotheby, Hong Kong) 62 A fine pair of wucai (wu ts'ai) square Dishes of shallow flared form with brown-edged rims. |