barbotine

[bahr-buh-teen]

noun

1. a thin clay paste for making ceramic decorations in low relief.

Word History and Origins

Origin of barbotine¹

1860–65; < French, equivalent to barbot ( er ) to dabble, splash about (of a duck, etc.) + -ine -ine ²

Example Sentences

His first innovation was a method known as “Barbotine” or slip-painting, in which coloured clays were used “impasto,” often in considerable thickness, so that after the work had been fired and glazed it bore some resemblance to an oil painting.

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Underglaze or Barbotine colours should be used, and they should be put on in thin washes.

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In the last named were found traces of a fire that had been lit above the tomb, and some pottery was picked up ornamented with hollow lines, filled with some white matter not unlike barbotine.

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