Dear Histarch,

I am so grateful for this discussion and having the heavy weights weigh in,
this is really wonderful for someone like me who is ceramically challenged
- always seeming to be playing catch-up on the trends and nuances - .

Thank you for this, i am going to hit the citations noted, and with great
sincerity i am grateful for your sharing.

Warm wishes always,

kev

kevin m. donaghy
doctoral candidate
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
USA

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 2:39 PM, George Miller <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Linda Hylkema’s question on when “the use of gold banding begins being used
> on refined earthen wares” has been answered by Silas Hurry’s reference to
> “Bright Gold” gilding in my article “Telling Time for Archaeologists” in
> Volume 29 of *Northeast Historical Archaeology*, page 1-22.  There is an
> expanded discussion of bright gold gilding in my article “A Revised Set of
> CC Index Values for Classification and Economic Scaling of English Ceramics
> from 1787 to 1880” *Historical Archaeology *1991 Vol. 25, No. 1:10.
>
>
>
> Robert Copeland’s book *Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the
> Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries* published in 2009 by the Northern
> Ceramic Society has very useful descriptions and illustrations of the
> various manufacturing processes in the Staffordshire potteries.  Chapter
> 23, titled “Gold, Gilding and Lustres” has an excellent description of the
> older gilding processes that involved gold and mercury that was used up
> until the 1960s.  This gilding had to be burnished with a “blood stone” or
> agate.  Gilders were a group of workers and this was restricted to the
> high-end ceramics.  Robert also includes a history of the development of
> bright gold gilding that reduced the cost of gilding and led to its
> expanded use on cheap earthenware.  Gilding became common from the 1870s
> and are still used extensively today on cheap ceramics.
>
>
>
> Peace,
>
> George L. Miller
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 5:27 AM, geoff carver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > They called it "Guzzaline" in the new film.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> >
> > Perhaps what George Miller refers to as "liquid gold"? (1870 - present)
> >
>



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kevin m. donaghy
graduate student
Temple University
Department of Anthropology