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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.
Tin-glazing is the process of giving tin-glazed pottery items a ceramic glaze that is white, glossy and opaque, which is normally applied to red or buff earthenware. Tin-glaze is plain lead glaze with a small amount of tin oxide added. [1] The opacity and whiteness of tin glaze encourage its frequent decoration.
Tin-glaze, which coats the ware with lead glaze made opaque white by the addition of tin. [2] Known in the Ancient Near East and then important in Islamic pottery, from which it passed to Europe. Includes Hispano-Moresque ware, Italian Renaissance maiolica (also called majolica), faience and Delftware.
Faience or faïence (/ f aɪ ˈ ɑː n s, f eɪ ˈ-,-ˈ ɒ̃ s /; French: ⓘ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the history of pottery. The invention ...
English tin-glazed majolica. First shown at the 1851 Exhibition by Minton & Co., Exhibit Number 74. Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, UK. The notes in this article append tin-glazed to the word meaning 'opaque white tin-glaze, painted in enamels', and coloured glazes to the word meaning 'coloured lead glazes, applied direct to the biscuit'.
Glaze was made from sand, wine lees, lead compounds, and tin compounds. [9] Tin-glazed earthenware is frequently prone to flaking and somewhat delicate. [10] Analysis of samples of Italian maiolica pottery from the Middle Ages has indicated that tin was not always a component of the glaze, whose chemical composition varied. [11]
Talavera de la Reina pottery is a traditional type of faience, or tin-glazed earthenware made in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo . The area has a long history of pottery , and dishes, jars, ceramics and other objects have been found in recent archaeological excavations.
English delftware pottery and its painted decoration is similar in many respects to that from Holland, but its peculiarly English quality has been commented upon: "... there is a relaxed tone and a sprightliness which is preserved throughout the history of English delftware; the overriding mood is provincial and naïve rather than urbane and sophisticated."
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