lusterware
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
lusterware kind of pottery with an overglaze finish containing copper and silver or other materials that give the effect of iridescence. The process may have been invented and was certainly first popularized by Islamic potters of the 9th cent. The most beautiful and brilliantly colored ware—pottery that was made between 836 and 883 for the Abbasid caliphs—has been found at Samarra. During the reign (10th-12th cent.) of the Fatimids in Egypt a high standard was maintained. Iranian and Egyptian potters continued to produce lusterware, while in Europe it was manufactured chiefly in Spain and then in Italy, where in the 15th cent. it was sometimes used to enhance majolica. In England the technique came into vogue in the 19th cent. and was utilized by Josiah Wedgwood and Josiah Spode.
Author not available, LUSTERWARE.,
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
Lusterware teacup: professional appraiser Helaine Fendelman evaluates and appraises your collectibles and antiques.(what is it? what is it worth?)
Country Living; 5/1/2008; 819 words
; ... affordable ceramics for the working class. Lusterware refers to a type of pottery that was ... variety of motifs. This rare c. 1835 pink lusterware teacup and matching saucer were originally ... Galleries in Dallas. what is it worth? LUSTERWARE TEACUPS Prices for single English lusterware ...
Read more
|
|
|
THINK PINK LUSTERWARE.(XIX century English ceramics)
Country Living; 3/1/2001; ADAMS, REBECCA KNAPP; 1206 words
; ... privileged domain of a moneyed few. The name lusterware, sometimes spelled lustreware, refers ... iridescent sheen. The color wheel for lusterware includes gold, copper, silver, and a ... collectors. In the United States, pink lusterware is far more popular than the other colors ...
Read more
|
|
|
Pattern play: abstract and figurative patterns will also combine beautifully and evocatively if you limit your palette to one color and finish--in this case, red lusterware.(Idea Notebook)(Brief Article)
Country Living; 11/1/2004; 254 words
; ... The variety of patterns--both figural and abstract--in this lusterware collection make each saucer feel like an individual treasure ... favorites that they expect to see at each gathering. delicate Lusterware from the 1800s has a luminosity and sheen similar to mother-of-p ...
Read more
|
|
A treasury of Spanish lusterware in New York City.
The Magazine Antiques; 10/1/1996; Oppenheimer, Margaret A.; 2830 words
; ... Rather, it is an example of Spanish lusterware made in Andalusia in the second half of the fourteenth century. Lusterware is a type of maiolica ornamented ... pottery-producing regions over the years, little lusterware is the equal of that produced in ...
Read more
|
|
'Lusterware,' a watercolor by Mary Bohn, is part of a special art exhibit on display through September at Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth.(Speare Memorial Hospital)(Brief article)
New Hampshire Business Review; 8/17/2007; 90 words
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: 'Lusterware,' a watercolor by Mary Bohn, is part of a special art exhibit on display through September at Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth ...
Read more
|
|
On the road: HB associate editor Edward Ross travels to Florida, where he picks up a lusterware tea set for a pittance.(WEEKEND SHOPPER)
House Beautiful; 6/1/2005; Lopez-Cordero, Mario; 342 words
; ... held the needle: an early-20th-century lusterware tea set complete with six place settings ... detailing and lavender coloration of the lusterware. You normally see it in shades, like ... The symbol on the underside of the lusterware belongs to the Aich factory, which existed ...
Read more
|
|
Living with luster: it's not just the sheen of the English pink lusterware gathered in his kitchen that beguiles Jeffrey DuCharme. "It's also their wonderful color and cheerful motifs". (Collecting).(Brief Article)
Victoria; 5/1/2003; Waller, Kim; 157 words
; GUESTS AT HENDERSON HOUSE, Jeffrey DuCharme's antiques-filled bed and breakfast in Minnesota (see Victoria, January 2003) may be greeted with tea in pink luster cups decorated with swags or flowers, then find fresh flowers by their bedsides in luster vases. Come down for breakfast, and you'll see
Read more
|
|
WHAT'S IT WORTH ?: Lustrous tea set worth $50
Sunday Gazette-Mail; 1/27/2002; Leslie Hindman; 287 words
; ... Thomasville, N.C. A. Your tea set is an example of lusterware. Lusterware is pottery or porcelain that has been given a metallic ... the method was successfully industrialized and lusterware became quite common and affordable. Your set is ...
Read more
|
|
N.H. Auction has super Powers.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald; 2/27/2000; Mascolo, Frances McQ.-J.; 584 words
; A splendid collection of lusterware gathered by Roger T. Powers opens the bidding Saturday at 3 p ... The Powers collection includes nearly 200 beautifully colored lusterware pitchers and other objects, resist silver pieces, an interesting ...
Read more
|
|
Beatrice Wood at Garth Clark. (ceramics exhibition; New York, New York)
Art in America; 9/1/1993; Adams, Brooks; 465 words
; At 100, Beatrice Wood is still potting in fine form. Her new lusterware chalices are adorned with nude figures in high relief. With their legs splayed and their hands on their heads, these figures suggest ...
Read more
|
Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses
|
lusterware
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
lus·ter·ware / ˈləstərˌwer / ( Brit. lus·tre·ware ) • n. ceramic articles with an iridescent metallic glaze.
Read more
|
|
William Frend De Morgan
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... son of Augustus De Morgan. A famous potter, he designed glass and tiles and rediscovered an old process of making colored lusterware. When he was 66 he retired from business and turned to writing novels, which were quite popular and brought him a large income ...
Read more
|
|
|
luster
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
... coating containing unoxidized metal that gives an iridescent glaze to ceramics. ∎ ceramics with such a glaze; lusterware: [as adj. ] luster jugs. ∎ a type of finish on a photographic print, less reflective than a glossy finish. 3 ...
Read more
|
|
|
mosque
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... elaborate; they are decorated with wooden fretwork in Morocco, with carved and pierced marble in Syria and Iraq, and with lusterware tiles bearing quotations from the Qur'an in Iran. A mosque usually includes a number of distinctive elements: a mimbar (or ...
Read more
|
|
|
Islamic art and architecture
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... pieces with the lead glaze of Hellenistic tradition, and most famous, the lusterware fragments. In 9th-century Islam the technique of tin-glazed ware was perfected. Lusterware was imported into Egypt and later made there. The Great Mosque of Al ...
Read more
|