white-ground

American  

[hwahyt-ground, wahyt-] / ˈʰwaɪtˌgraʊnd, ˈwaɪt- /

adjective

1. pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.

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Example Sentences

The final assemblagelike composition of perpendicular elements of wood and metal is completely ambiguous in terms of its actual size, weight, function, orientation and vintage, although it resembles one of Irving Penn’s elegant, white-ground images.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2010

There is no reason why Rembrandt should not have known of the white-ground technique and every reason to suppose that he did.

From Rembrandt's Etching Technique: An Example by Morse, Peter