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  2. Joseph Glass (potter) - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Glass (fl. 1670 [1]-1703 [2] at least) was a potter, working in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, England. [3] He worked in slipware , and is one of the first potters known to have signed and dated his work.

  3. Catawba Valley Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Catawba Valley potters chose alkaline glazes over salt glaze, the predominant stoneware glaze used in America at the time. Potters enjoyed an abundance of wood ash from burning their kilns while salt deposits were not very plentiful in the Carolinas. [citation needed] Furthermore, salt was especially expensive during and after the Civil War.

  4. Ceramic glaze - Wikipedia

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    Glazing of pottery followed the invention of glass around 1500 BC, in the Middle East and Egypt with alkali glazes including ash glaze, and in China, using ground feldspar. By around 100 BC lead-glazing was widespread in the Old World. [3] Glazed brick goes back to the Elamite Temple at Chogha Zanbil, dated to the 13th century BC.

  5. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    They are now limited to small numbers of studio potters who value the unpredictability arising from the variable nature of the raw material. [55] Types of Glazing in Pottery. Glazing in pottery is the process of applying a coating or layer of material to ceramics that, when fired, forms a vitreous or glass-like surface.

  6. Lustreware - Wikipedia

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    A fragment of lustre glass from Fustat is dated to the 779–780, and a bowl (Corning Museum of Glass) was made in Damascus between 718 and 814; otherwise we know little of the history of the technique on glass. Lustre was used in Islamic glass only briefly, and never spread to other areas as lustre on pottery did. [20]

  7. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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    The material used to form an article of pottery. Thus a potter might prepare, or order from a supplier, such an amount of earthenware body, stoneware body or porcelain body. Coiling A hand method of forming pottery by building up the walls with coils of rope-like rolls of clay. Cone See pyrometric cone Crackle glaze

  8. California pottery - Wikipedia

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    Ransgil Glass Co. Oakland: 1940s-50s: Gold-encrusted china and glassware: Red Doat: Berkeley: 1930s: Figurines [11] Redlands Pottery: Redlands: 1902–1909: Art ware [10] Richenda Stevick: Redwood City, then Berkeley: 1930s: Figurines & art ware [11] Roblin Art Pottery: San Francisco: 1898–1906: Art pottery [12] San Carlos Pottery: San Carlos ...

  9. Tin-glazed pottery - Wikipedia

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    Maiolica charger from Faenza, after which faience is named, c. 1555; diameter 43 cm, tin-glazed earthenware Tin-glazed (majolica/maiolica) plate from Faenza, Italy. Tin-glazed pottery is earthenware covered in lead glaze with added tin oxide [1] which is white, shiny and opaque (see tin-glazing for the chemistry); usually this provides a background for brightly painted decoration.

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