Qinghua (Blue-and-White Ware) / 青華（青花）
A Chinese term referring to ceramics or a decorative technique in which designs are painted onto a white-bodied vessel using a cobalt oxide–based pigment, then coated with a transparent glaze and fired. This technique is known as sometsuke in Japan. Production flourished at the Jingdezhen kilns in China from the Yuan dynasty onward.