Difference between revisions of "Ash glaze"
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== Description == | == Description == | ||
| − | A [ | + | A [[ceramic%20glaze|ceramic glaze]] that contains a high proportion of plant ash. Ash was used as a glaze component since the Han dynasty in China. Because a wide variety of waste products (wood, leaves, seed pods, [[sawdust|sawdust]], [[bark|bark]], etc.) are used to produce ash, it has a wide range of compositions ([[silica|silica]], [[potash|potash]], [[lime|lime]], [[carbon|carbon]], etc.). This variability in composition gives unreliable and often unsatisfactory, results. |
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== Synonyms and Related Terms == | == Synonyms and Related Terms == | ||
Revision as of 09:05, 8 January 2014
Description
A Ceramic glaze that contains a high proportion of plant ash. Ash was used as a glaze component since the Han dynasty in China. Because a wide variety of waste products (wood, leaves, seed pods, Sawdust, Bark, etc.) are used to produce ash, it has a wide range of compositions (Silica, Potash, Lime, Carbon, etc.). This variability in composition gives unreliable and often unsatisfactory, results.
Synonyms and Related Terms
glaçure à la cendre (Fr.); as glazuur (Ned.); vidrado de cinzas (Port.)
Authority
- Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)
- Henry Hodges, Artifacts: An Introduction to Early Materials and Technology, Ronald P. Frye, Kingston, Canada, 1988
- Robert Fournier, Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Pottery, Chilton Book Company, Radnor, PA, 1992
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000