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It features a double glaze: a light matte green underglaze and on top, a brittle yellow glaze, almost translucent, that blisters during the firing process, creating holes that expose the green.

Its seemingly flocked surface is velvety, not slick, with a chrome-yellow underglaze that gives the red surface the passionate crackle of fire.

Ernest Chaplet’s porcelain Chinese-style square vase with an oxblood glaze poured over its snowy white underglaze goes with a similarly glazed vase shaped like an oblong melon made in China about 100 years earlier.

Guided tours of the factory constantly marvel at the skills involved in the underglaze transfer system, done entirely in house and one of the last of its kind in the world.

Underglaze, un-dėr-glāz′, adj. suitable for underglaze painting, of a pigment.—Underglaze painting, in ceramics, painting in a vitrifiable pigment before the glaze is applied.