fritware
English
Etymology
frit + -ware
Noun
fritware (countable and uncountable, plural fritwares)
- Pottery in which frit is added to clay to reduce its fusion temperature.
- 1994, Gülru Necipoğlu, Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, →ISBN, page 31:
- The twelfth and thirteenth centuries constitute a high point in the history of Islamic ceramics, with finely potted and decorated fritwares produced in both Syria and Iran.
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- A combination of clay and frit used to create fritware.
- 1997, Ian Freestone & David R. M. Gaimster, POTTERY IN THE MAKING PB, page 114:
- Akin to European soft-paste porcelain, this material, known as fritware or stone-paste, is described in the fourtheenth-century treatise of Ahu'l Qasim as consisting of ten parts ground quartz, one part ground glass and one part fine white clay.
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