Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lead Glazed Pottery, Vol. 1: Plain Glazed, Sgraffito and Slip-Decorated Wares
Lead applied to pottery as a coating to render it impervious to liquids, was used in Europe as early as the twelfth century. Dr. W. C. Prime, in his Pottery and Porcelain of all Times and Nations, states that there is reason to believe that lead-glazed pottery was made in Italy from the eighth to the fifteenth century, at which period stanniferous enamel began to take its place as a covering for pottery which was to be decorated by the application of colors, but the more ordinary varieties of earthenware continued to be glazed with lead through the following centuries down to the present day.
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