Glazed pottery

Tite, M. S. (2004), Glazed pottery, Proc. bit. School of Physics "Enrico Fermi, Vol. 154, Physics Methods in Archaeometry, pp. 377-384. 

Clark, R. J. H., Curri, L., Henshaw, G. S., and Laganara, C. (1997). Characterization of brown-black and blue pigments in glazed pottery fragments from Castel Fiorentino (Foggia, Italy) by Raman microscopy, X-ray powder diffractometry and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 28 105-109. 

A different problem related to Sevillian pottery is that several specimens are not considered to be true majolica, but rather a lead-glazed pottery. A few of these samples have been considered in the present study, five of which are clearly of a Sevillian origin (2 honey samples, 2 green samples and 1 blue sample). Moreover, as discussed above, XRF indicate that five of the 7 ungrouped samples could be Sevillan products, but contain significantly lower concentrations of CaO and Sr. All... 

LA-TOF-ICP-MS may be a useful tool for distinguishing different sources of lead found in low-lead, alkaline-based and lead-based glazes from Mesopotamia. Even with the limitations of the present study, lead-isotope ratios determined by TOF-ICP-MS indicate that multiple ore sources were utilized by makers of Islamic lead-glazed pottery. With the further refinements of Dudgeon et al. (this volume), LA-TOF-ICP-MS promises to be a rapid, cost-effective approach to lead-isotope ratio analysis of glazed pottery. 

The crow s foot could not be attributed to any of the paste compositional groups. Glazed bowls are known to be transported in stacks with the Crow s Feet still in place to prevent breakage (32). It is likely that the crow s foot does not represent the local production of glazed pottery, but is possible evidence of trade. However, it is still possible that the crow s foot could have been made from a different paste than the glazed pottery and be a local product. 

Based on the INAA dataset and the petrographic study, at least two compositionally distinct sources provided the raw clays used for making the monochrome glazed pottery traded into the Deh Luran Plain beginning in the Parthian period aid continuing into at least the twelfth century A.D. It is only with the appearance of sgraffito, apparently first at Basra and later elsewhere that a third compositionally distinct source of raw clay appears. 

Later Islamic Post-Ninth century A.D. The first lead-glazed pottery, sgraffito is produced outside of southern Mesopotamia (INAA Group 3). Alkaline-based and low-lead, alkaline-based glazed pottery continues to be produced (INAA Group 1). INAA Group 2 ceramics continue to be produced. 

Copper in ceramic glazes, pottery from Latter-day Saint Utah, 456 Copper salts in fiber mineralization,... 

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