Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 41
ecoration in Italy. It consistsin laying on a ground of coloured clay or plaster on anothercoating of a different colour, and while this second coatingis moderately soft, the pattern or design is incised or scratched down to the first coating or ground, which,being of a different colour, reveals… … Fig. 17.—Sgraffitto Maiolica. (S. K. M. bands, or medallions of figures and animals, in high relief.After the ware is incised it is glazed with a translucent leadglaze, variegated with green and yellow colouring over thewhite engobe (Fig. 17). The sgraffitto pottery of Italy iseither of Lombardic…
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