In: Minerals, 2018, vol. 8, no. 7, p. 269
This study provides an overview of the few archaeometric analyses of European white earthenwares from England, France, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland. White earthenwares were an extremely successful mass-product between ca. 1750 and 1900. They became “the porcelain of the poor man” and replaced the older traditional pottery such as faïence. The invention of this new ceramic type took...
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In: European Journal of Mineralogy, 2017, p. -
Optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy analyses were carried out on a typical Sèvres soft (frit) porcelain plate from 1781 in order to determine the chemical and mineralogical composition as well as the microstructure of its ceramic body, glaze, overglaze decoration and gilding. The body is rich in SiO₂ (73 mass%), CaO (16) and alkali...
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In: Archaeometry, 2015, vol. 57, no. 3, p. 426–452
Forty-eight tin-glazed ceramic fragments (faiences) from Lorraine, found in excavations or pertaining to objects in collections, were subjected to X-ray fluorescence analysis to determine the bulk, major, minor and trace element compositions. Sixteen superficially clay layers from the surroundings of Lunéville and Saint-Clément were also analysed. The faiences are, with four exceptions, MgO...
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In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2015, vol. 2, p. 40–50
In 1996, archaeological excavations close to the ancient Fulda faïence manufacture site unearthed a rich deposit of faïence wastes (biscuits, faïences, technical ceramics). The manufacture was founded in 1741 by Prince Abbot Amand von Buseck and closed down in 1761. This first archaeometric study of a German faïence manufacture included 31 samples produced between 1742 and 1760. Analytical...
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In: Applied Clay Science, 2014, vol. 82, p. 16–23
Fireboxes of two pottery structures, excavated in 2002 at Aventicum (at present Avenches), the capital of Roman Switzerland, were studied to understand their function in the artisan quarter. Twenty-one oriented samples underwent petrographical, mineralogical and chemical analyses to determine the nature of the raw materials and the temperature distribution.Both structures are typologically...
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In: European Journal of Mineralogy, 2011, vol. 23, no. 6, p. 993-1006
Seven unglazed figurines from private collections, attributed to Cyfflé's Terre de Lorraine manufacture in Lunéville (1766-1780), were subjected to porosity and scanning electron microscopic analyses to determine bulk element compositions and the composition and nature of their constituent phases. One figurine bears the mark CYFFLÉ À. LUNÉVILLE, three the mark TERRE DE LORRAINE. The...
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In: Archaeometry, 2011, vol. 53, no. 4, p. 765–790
Fragments of 25 examples of ‘white earthenware’ from Lorraine were subjected to porosity analysis, X-ray fluorescence analysis, X-ray diffraction analysis and backscattered-electron image analysis—coupled with energy-dispersive spectrometry to determine the porosity, bulk, major, minor and trace element compositions, and the composition and the proportion of their constituent...
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In: Applied Clay Science, 2010///doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2010.09.013
Time–temperature evolutions of different parts inside a pot were recorded during three experimental surface (bonfire) firings. The experimental vessels were shaped from a calcareous clay, tempered with 30% vol. of oolithic limestone. The temperature–time recording showed: (1) Tmax. was reached after 12–22 min and differed between the firings as well as inside individual...
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In: Archaeometry, 2009, vol. 51, no. 5, p. 791-807
Three types of antimony-based, opaque ceramic colours were used in the faience workshop of Le Bois d'Épense during the first decades of the 19th century; that is, yellow, tawny and green. Yellow is generated by lead antimonate crystals (Naples Yellow), which are incorporated into an uncoloured glass matrix. According to SEM–EDS measurements, these pigments contain iron. The tawny colour is the...
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In: Archaeometry, 2009, p. -
Fragments of four Terre de Lorraine biscuit figurines were subjected to porosity analysis, X-ray fluorescence analysis, X-ray diffraction analysis, backscattered-electron image analysis—coupled with energy dispersive spectrometry—and electron backscatter diffraction analysis to determine the porosity, bulk, major, minor and trace element compositions, and the composition and the proportion of...
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