Dutch blue

English translation: Colour as produced in the Delft potteries

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English term or phrase:Dutch blue
Selected answer:Colour as produced in the Delft potteries
Entered by: Poj

05:40 Jan 31, 2004
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary
English term or phrase: Dutch blue
A Cloisonné vase, sort of old Dutch blue, or Delft, with some Chinese or Japanese doodads on it.
Poj
Local time: 20:01
Colour as produced in the Delft potteries
Explanation:
Dutch blue was the colour used at the Dutch potteries (in Delft, a town near The Hague). It is still produced today.

See website:
http://www.holland.nl/uk/holland/sights/delftblue.html
"The blue colour came from calcining cobalt ore with quartz sand and potash and it was very expensive."

Cloisonné is a type of pottery too and I presume the colour used for the vase was the typical Delft blue colour as used in the Netherlands.
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Marijke Singer
Spain
Local time: 14:01
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Thank you!
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5 +12Colour as produced in the Delft potteries
Marijke Singer
5 +3Color
Alex Zelkind (X)
4A variable colour...
Subhamay Ray (X)


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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Color


Explanation:
Check here:
http://fp.bio.utk.edu/mycology/Color/Colors19-21.htm

Alex Zelkind (X)
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
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agree  jerrie: http://www.foximas.com/old-dutch-white-iron-napkin-holder.ht...
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agree  Rajan Chopra
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agree  Nado2002
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A variable colour...


Explanation:
....averaging a moderate blue that is redder and darker than average copen, redder, lighter, and stronger than azurite blue, and redder and deeper than Dresden blue.

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Note added at 2004-01-31 06:21:55 (GMT)
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In simple terms, this is nearest to grayish blue.

Subhamay Ray (X)
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dutch blue
Colour as produced in the Delft potteries


Explanation:
Dutch blue was the colour used at the Dutch potteries (in Delft, a town near The Hague). It is still produced today.

See website:
http://www.holland.nl/uk/holland/sights/delftblue.html
"The blue colour came from calcining cobalt ore with quartz sand and potash and it was very expensive."

Cloisonné is a type of pottery too and I presume the colour used for the vase was the typical Delft blue colour as used in the Netherlands.

Marijke Singer
Spain
Local time: 14:01
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 98
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  chica nueva: describing the colour of the cloissone ware - that is of the enamel (cloisonne = a kind of enamel work in which the surface decoration is set in hollows formed by thin strips of wire welded to a metal plate in a complex pattern)
13 mins
  -> Thank you! I think the teapot on website http://www.cloisonneshop.com/ is Delft blue

agree  Empty Whiskey Glass
55 mins
  -> Thank you Svetozar!

agree  Jacqueline van der Spek
1 hr
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agree  Marie Scarano
1 hr
  -> Thank you Marie!

agree  Gordon Darroch (X)
5 hrs
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agree  Refugio
6 hrs
  -> Thank you Ruth!

agree  Krisztina Lelik
6 hrs
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agree  hookmv
8 hrs
  -> Thank you Veronica!

agree  Laurel Porter (X): yes, BUT: cloisonne-ware can hardly be described as pottery, as both the materials and methods used in manufacture are utterly different.
9 hrs
  -> Thank you Laurel! Cloisonné, to be more precise, seems to be "inlaid enamel technique from ancient China which is the combination of porcelain and bronze." (http://www.giftofhawaii.com/cloisonne.html).

agree  Chris Rowson (X)
11 hrs
  -> Thank you Chris!

agree  Nado2002
12 hrs
  -> Thank you Nado2002!

agree  Oso (X): ¶:^)
15 hrs
  -> Thank you Oso!
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