lead glaze

[ led ]

noun

, Ceramics.

1. a siliceous glaze containing lead oxide as a flux.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lead glaze¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Stone jars should be employed in preference to common earthenware for the storage of honey, which acts upon the lead glaze of the latter.

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For common cheap crockery a soft lead glaze, often galena, is generally used.

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Lead is often indispensable to the craftsman, and with care need not become a danger; but in schools a lead glaze is positively harmful.

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An amber lead glaze imparts a golden yellow to the slip-covered portions and a brownish amber to the exposed red paste.

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A factory was established by an ancestor of Josiah Wedgwood about the year 1700; and on the estate of Sir George Wombwell fragments of pottery, of a coarse brown ware, with lead glaze, have been frequently found on the site of the old manufactory.

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