lead glaze
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lead glaze
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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What we are trying earnestly to do is to find a substitute for lead glaze.
From The Story of Porcelain by Bassett, Sara Ware
After being fired the ware was glazed, apparently with the ordinary lead glaze of the time carefully prepared and fired again.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
On a hard-fired red clay he disposed groups of moulded plants, shells, fish and reptiles, painted them with crude green, brown and yellow colours, and glazed the whole with a well-prepared lead glaze.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
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
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 Bassett, Sara Ware
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