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Yellowware or Yellow Ware Earthenware – what is it?

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Yellowware is a type or sub-group of Earthenware. The body is relatively hard earthenware body and runs from pale buff to yellow in color. Yellowware was most popular from 1840 to 1900. Typically a lead glaze was used and yellowware was decorated with sponge prints, spattered color, and / or bands. [...]

What is Faience Earthenware?

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Faience is an earthenware featuring a tin-enameled (stanniferous) glaze. The glaze produces an opaque white surface.

In the traditional manner of producing ceramic items, a clay vessel would first be fired to create the fired product – an unglazed fired product can be called biscuit or bisque. For Faience earthenware, the undecorated biscuit was [...]

Redware or Terra Cotta is a type of Earthenware

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Redware, also known as Terra Cotta, has a distinctly red body, hence its name. The clay or paste is rendered out of surface clays. The Redware body is softest of all the Earthenwares and fractures easily.
Redware is a variety of earthenware whose body of soft porous clay turns red, orange, or brown when fired due [...]

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