The Traceability of Pinch Enameling

According to archaeological findings, enamel ware was first born in Greece, the Greek island of Prussia unearthed in the 12th century BC six rings and double eagle scepter head, recognized as the most primitive pinch enamel. By the 5th-6th centuries BC and had fired enamelware; until the 6th century AD, the Greek Byzantine enameling process gradually developed, and then to the 10th-13th centuries AD, pinch enameling process is extremely prosperous. In the 12th century, pinched enamel ware from the Arab region directly or indirectly into China.

In fact, the Arab region of pinched enamel into our country, should be divided into two stages: first by the production of their pinched enamel ware, by the rise of the East-West trade, with the general goods into our country; and then due to the Mongols ruled the Eurasian continent, the establishment of the Great Yuan empire, due to the migration of the human race and the frequent exchanges of culture and technology, pinched enameling skills with the Western artists into our country. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, silk enamel has been used by a certain class of people, to the Jingtai years, the enameling process reached its peak.