Turquoise glaze
The turquoise glaze owes its color to copper oxide in an alkaline glaze mix. Appears intermittently in ceramics from as early as the Yuan period. One of the most well known examples from the Ming period is the large stoneware guan (wine jar), dated to the 15th century, illustrated by R. E. Scott, Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation, 1989, no. 36. Also called peacock-green or peacock-blue.
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