Sorry to chime in late in the stream, and I deleted most earlier
entries, so cannot confirm whether anyone offered this title:
French Faience, by Arthur Lane, Revised edition 1970 of 1946 imprint,
Praeger Publishers, LC number 75-133087
Rob Mann wrote:
> First, I fail to see how the term tin-enameled can be construed as
> un-scientific, whatever that is. Secondly, it is not as if this term has
> just been "added" to the field. Over a century ago Edwin A. Barber
> (1907) wrote a book entitled "Tin Enameled Pottery: Majolica, Delft, and
> other Stanniferous Faience," Pennsylvania Museum and School of
> Industrial Art, Philadelphia. Now, it may well be that Barber was just
> as technically incorrect as others who use the term, but to suggest that
> those who have used the term are "bedeviled by a lack of technical
> understanding" and have simply applied the term because they are
> confused by its similarity to "modern enamel paints" seems to be taking
> it too far. Barber, after all, wrote several volumes on ceramics and
> was Honorary Curator of the Department of American Pottery and Porcelain
> at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. I am all for
> terminological consistency (I always cringe when I see the term kaolin
> pipes) and since, as George noted, the goal of the French Colonial
> Pottery Conference was to foster further discussions of classifying
> French colonial pottery, perhaps this thread can add to these
> discussions and point the way toward better technical understanding and
> terminological consistency.
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> Rob
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of paul
> courtney
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> Subject: Enamels
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> Tin-lead glaze would be more accurate but the use of enamel is just
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> adding another confusing and un-scientific term to a field already
>
> bedevilled by lack of technical understanding - on analogy to modern
>
> enamel paints which look nothing like tin-lead glazes anyway. Enamelling
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> is best kept to enamelled metalwares by archaeologists. As Mary pointed
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> out the tin is merely an opacifier in a lead glaze but many glazes are
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> opaque. Must try and get the conference book.
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> paul courtney
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> Leicester
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> UK
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