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The development of fencai enamel was one of the most significant technical contributions made to ceramics during the Qing period. Since the colors appeared softer than those of five-colored wares, fencai is also known as soft color. The new opaque colors enabled painters to blend tints to create a multitude of shades and hues. Fencai enamel was first introduced in the Kangxi period, and its production reached a mature stage in the Yongzheng era. As the improved fencai enamels had a wider range of colors and each could be applied in a variety of tones, they could be used to depict some of the highly complicated pictorial compositions of flower and plant forms, figures, and even insects.