Dehua "blanc de chine" is the ivory-white porcelain of Fujian's Dehua kilns, prized since the Ming for a warm, translucent, mutton-fat glaze that reads as flesh and light rather than cold surface. Its most iconic form is the Guanyin figure — flawless creamy glaze set against near-black lacquer stand or museum vitrine. This system frames every layout the way a Dehua figure is displayed: one luminous warm-ivory subject, centered and rim-lit, floating on deep dark ground. The white belongs to the object; the ground stays near-black so the glaze glows as light, never as a background.