Is it possible that you have non-lustre part of a lustre ware vessel? I
recently had a red pasted fragment with a white interior and blue exterior.
There was only a very small portion of a copper lustre on the edge of the sherd
to clue me in. The copper lustre originally appeared to me to be brown until I
looked at it a little more closely. Lustre ware is my best guess given the
information.
Natalie Adams
New South Associates
"Daria E. Merwin" wrote:
> We have a piece of ceramic that is from a site in New Jersey that dates to
> the first half of the 19th century. The paste is a very hard redware, and
> it is a relatively thin piece. It is glazed on both sides with red
> transfer printing. Additional sherds that look like the same paste have
> brown and blue painting and a molded white slip design. Is anyone familiar
> with such a decorated redware? I have pictures of the sherd if anyone is
> interested.
>
> Thanks very much for the help,
>
> Matthew Napolitano
> SUNY Stony Brook Anthropology Dept.