Université de Fribourg

Antimonate opaque glaze colours from the faience manufacture of Le Bois d'Épense (19th century, Northeastern France)*

Maggetti, Marino ; Neururer, Christoph ; Rosen, J.

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...

Université de Fribourg

Paul-Louis Cyfflé's (1724-1806) Terre de Lorraine: a technological study

Maggetti, Marino ; Rosen, J. ; Neururer, Chrisoph ; Serneels, Vincent

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...