Q: In my matte blue glaze and my transparent glaze, I substituted cobalt oxide for cobalt carbonate. When fired, the matte glaze was blue but
Q&A: Blue Specking in a Glaze
Wang Xianfeng: Innovating Jun Ware
Jun ware occupies an important place in the history of Chinese ceramics, named after the city of Yuzhou in Henan Province, where it was first made. Yuzhou was known as ‘Juntai’ during the Xia Dynasty (thought to be approximately 2070-1600 BC), and lo
