Table 2.
Representative compositions (wt%) of yellow, red, and green colored areas from the literature for porcelain with “monochrome” décor (values in italics and bracket correspond to oxides in brackets).
| Reign | Color | SiO2 | Al2O3 | MgO | Na2O | K2O | CaO | PbO | Fe2O3 [FeO] |
P2O5 | TiO2 | CuO [Cu2O] |
Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xuande * | yellow | 44.9 | 5.1 | 0.3 | 0.85 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 45.9 | 1.35 | 0.05 | Hou et al., 2022 [60] | ||
| Hongzhi * | 41.8 | 5.2 | 0.3 | 0.85 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 48.4 | 1.8 | 0.05 | ||||
| Jingdezhen + | yellow | 0.7 | 4.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 47.9 | 1.6 | 0.1 | |||
| Ming | turquoise | 51.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 7.4 | 5.0 | 32.5 | 0.2 | 2.2 | Wood [61] | ||
| Chenghua-5 | red | 57.5 | 9.7 | 6.6 | 3.7 | 20.4 | 1.3 | 0.5 | Cooper et al., 2021 [62] | ||||
| Qing-1 | red | 31.5 | 4.7 | 1 | 3.3 | 55 | 3.6 | 0.4 | |||||
| Qing-3 | red | 43.2 | 7 | 0.75 | 5.8 | 38.9 | 2 | - | |||||
| Chenghua-1 | yellow | 34.3 | 3.45 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 57.3 | 2.5 | 1.4 | |||||
| Qing-1 | yellow | 47.1 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 60.3 | 0.05 | 0.4 | |||||
| Chenghua-1 | green | 44.4 | 5.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 46.2 | 0.5 | 1 | 1.4 | ||||
| Qing-1 | 33.4 | 1.6 | 0.25 | 0.4 | 61.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 2.3 | |||||
| Qing | red | 64 | 14.9 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 12.7 | [1.7] | [0.6] | Barber et al., 1992 [63] |
* Porcelain; + tile.