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‖ sang-de-bœuf|sɑ̃dəbœf| [Fr.: lit. ‘bullock's blood’.] ‘A deep red colour found on old Chinese porcelain’ (Stanf.). Also transf., a ceramic glaze of this colour; porcelain bearing such a glaze. Also attrib.
1881C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork ii. 104 A number of antique Chinese vases in high glaze, sang de bœuf, céladon, gray, rose, mandarin, yellow. 1886Athenæum 13 May 650/3 His claret-jug with a body of sang de bœuf. 1897Daily News 29 July 2/7 A slender vase of splashed sang-de-bœuf crackle. 1900F. Litchfield Pott. & Porc. iv. 45 The pottery made in self⁓colour, such as sang de boeuf. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 88/2 The monochrome copper-red glazes of the Chinese were successfully imitated in the closing decades of the nineteenth century by Bernard Moore and the Burtons. These glazes were designated Sang de Boeuf and ‘Flambé’. 1960O. Manning Great Fortune ii. 121 She had seen an Italian tea-set of fine sang-de-bœuf china. 1965D. Torr Diplomatic Cover vi. 102 A scholarly, balding man.. was examining a plain deep red vase. Janine was saying,..‘It's a genuine Lang Yao sang de boeuf, seventeenth century.’ 1972Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. XXXVIII. 47 All these transmutations can be seen..in the sang de boeuf bowl No 231 where the almost colourless rim shows faintly green. 1974Savage & Newman Illustr. Dict. Ceramics 254 Sang-de-bœuf,..a brilliant red glaze which exhibits patches resembling the coagulation of ox⁓blood... The colouring agent was copper oxide fired in a reducing atmosphere, and it was developed in China during the Ch'ing dynasty. |