Lead glazed potteryPart first (common clays): plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares . re to be used. The process was as follows: While the clay tile was still moist the design was impressed init with a die, or stamp, and the depressions were filled with whitepipe clay. The lead glaze which was used, being of a yellowishtint, produced the effect of bright yellow designs in a dark red orbrown ground. In this Museums collection are some good ex-amples of this style, one of which is here figured (see No. 7). Itshows the crudely executed arms of Great Britain. These exam-ples are suppose
Lead glazed potteryPart first (common clays): plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares . re to be used. The process was as follows: While the clay tile was still moist the design was impressed init with a die, or stamp, and the depressions were filled with whitepipe clay. The lead glaze which was used, being of a yellowishtint, produced the effect of bright yellow designs in a dark red orbrown ground. In this Museums collection are some good ex-amples of this style, one of which is here figured (see No. 7). Itshows the crudely executed arms of Great Britain. These exam-ples are supposed to date back at least as far as the 17th century. In England sgraffito decoration was resorted to more rarely thanin Germany, but several fine pieces are figured by Hodgkin in hiswork on Early English Pottery, Named, Dated, and the earliest pieces of English sgraffito ware known to col-lectors is a jug in the Norwich (England) Museum, fourteen inchesin height, which bears the date 1670. A jug twelve inches inheight, with incised designs and inscription, dated 1698, owned by. 5. Sgraffito Dish (13 inches). Germany, Early Nineteenth Century. Museum No. 03-3*4.
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