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lead glaze

American  
[led] / lɛd /

noun

Ceramics.
  1. a siliceous glaze containing lead oxide as a flux.


Etymology

Origin of lead glaze

First recorded in 1835–45


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This faience was a ware of natural cream-colored clay, and upon it was tooled a flat design the hollows of which were filled in with darker clays that were afterward covered with a lead glaze.

From The Story of Porcelain by Sara Ware Bassett

Stone jars should be employed in preference to common earthenware for the storage of honey, which acts upon the lead glaze of the latter.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

On many examples, colorful lines were hand painted over or near the incised designs, usually in reds, yellows, and greens, and were covered with a transparent lead glaze.

From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by John L. Cotter

An amber lead glaze imparts a golden yellow to the slip-covered portions and a brownish amber to the exposed red paste.

From North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century by C. Malcolm Watkins

Whether he used a plumbiferous, or lead glaze; or a stanniferous, or tin glaze, we do not know.

From The Story of Porcelain by Sara Ware Bassett

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