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BLANC DE CHINE [2 records]

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Record 1 1999-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Dyes and Pigments (Industries)
  • Paints and Varnishes (Industries)
DEF

Zinc oxide that is used as a white pigment (as in house paints, antifouling paints, water colors, enamels, and glazes), that is the whitest of all pigments, and that is permanent and not poisonous but lacks the opacity and covering power of white lead or titanium dioxide.

OBS

C.I. [Colour Index] 77947.

OBS

Compare with "zinc oxide", "zincite" and "flowers of zinc".

Key term(s)
  • C.I. 77947

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Teintures et pigments (Industries)
  • Peintures et vernis (Industries)
DEF

Également appelé blanc de zinc. Pigment white 4 - Cl 77 947. Utilisation : peintures en général. [Définition normalisée par l'AFNOR et reproduite avec son autorisation.]

CONT

Pour une impression à l'huile, la céruse reste également supérieure à nos pigments modernes - blanc de zinc [...]

OBS

blanc de neige : le plus pur.

OBS

oxyde de zinc : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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Record 2 1989-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Porcelain and Fine Ceramics
DEF

A beautiful, translucent ware, with a soft-looking melting glaze of milk or cream white, sometimes warmed with a pinkish tinge.

CONT

A beautiful white chinese porcelain ware that is generally best known under the French name of blanc de Chine.

OBS

The colours range from ivory to chalk-white. The glaze is thick, rich and unctuous. Most wares are small figures, finely and crisply modelled with deities.

OBS

It is decorated, if at all, with slight, applied reliefs, molded on incised designs, rarely with painted enamels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Porcelaines
DEF

porcelaine à couverte épaisse et lisse, variant du blanc bleuté aux tons rosés ou ivoire, provenant de Dehua au Fujian. (...) Employés pour la fabrication de petites pièces d'ornement (théières, cachets, figurines), dès la période Kangxi (...)

Spanish

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