Leadless decorative tiles, faience, and mosaic, comprising notes and excerpts on the history, materials, manufacture & use of ornamental flooring tiles, ceramic mosaic, and decorative tiles and faience, with complete series of recipes for tile-bodies, and for leadless glazes and art-tile enamels (1904)
Furnival, W. J. (William James) · Stone, Staffordshire, W.J. Furnival · leaf 141
W— Syrian 9i tiles, it may often be noticed that where cupreous grass-green colour has been applied, the glaze surface is depressed, as though the copper salt had induced vitrifaction of the siliceous body, and so caused shrinkage of the particular parts to which the colour had been applied. The… … , — Colonnade of the Grand Mosque. Fig. 49 and a brilliant turquoise; some red, a dull purple, and some yellow. {Catalogue to Maiolica , Aslnnolean Museum , Oxford, pp. 10, it.) Of the specimen from Baalbec, or Balbeck, Brongniart remarks that it is like Arab work, but produced in a little…
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