Lead-glazed earthenware
Lead-glazed earthenware is one of the traditional types of
In lead glazes, tints provided by impurities render greenish to brownish casts, with aesthetic possibilities that are not easily controlled in the kiln. The Romans used lead glazes for high-quality oil lamps and drinking cups.
Much of Roman technology was lost in the West, but coarse lead-glazed earthenwares were universal in medieval Europe and in
Lead-glazed earthenwares in Britain include the
See also
Notes
- ^ British Manufacturing Industries, Leon Arnoux, 1877. "When ... decorated by means of coloured glazes, if these are transparent, it ought to be called Palissy ware [popularly 'majolica'], from the name of the great artist who used these for his beautiful works. Messrs. Wedgwood, George Jones, and a few other makers of less importance, are reproducing it more or less successfully."
- ^ Victor Bryant, "Ceramics in the Roman world"
- ^ The American tradition was carried into the 19th century, and raised to a high standard by traditional local potters such as Christopher Haun of Tennessee.
- ^ "Summary description of Stamford ware from Cambridge University's Department of Archaeology". Archived from the original on 2007-09-02. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
- ^ Richard A. Goldthwaite, "The Economic and Social World of Italian Renaissance Maiolica" Renaissance Quarterly, 42.1 (Spring 1989 pp. 1-32) p. 1.
- ^ Bouquillon, A & Castaing, J & Barbe, F & Paine, S.R. & Christman, B & Crépin-Leblond, T & Heuer, A.H.. (2016). Lead-Glazed Rustiques Figulines [Rustic Ceramics] of Bernard Palissy [1510-90] and his Followers: Archaeometry. 59. 10.1111/arcm.12247. "Summary: Analysis confirms that Palissy used coloured lead glazes, lead silicates with added metal oxides of copper [for green], cobalt [for blue], manganese [for brown and black] or iron [for yellow ochre] with a small addition of tin [for opacity] to some of the glazes."
- ^ The Concise Encyclopaedia of English Pottery and Porcelain, 1968, Wolf Mankowitz, Reginald G. Haggar, Andre Deutsch Ltd p.138, 139
- ^ Pottery, British Manufacturing Industries, Leon Arnoux, 1877, p.42
References
- Atterbury, Paul, and Batkin, Maureen, Dictionary of Minton, Antique Collectors' Club, 1990.
- Arnoux, Leon, British Manufacturing Industries, Gutenberg, 1877. [1]