Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An outer coat of glaze on a piece of pottery.
- noun A painted or printed decoration applied over a glaze.
- transitive verb To apply an overglaze to.
- adjective Applied or designed for applying over a ceramic glaze.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To glaze over; cover with superficial brilliancy; hide (an inferior material) with something more showy.
- noun In ceramics, a second glaze applied to a piece of porcelain of which the first glaze is deeply colored or crackled, or covered with paintings in enamel.
- In ceramics, used for painting upon the glaze: said of a vitrifiable pigment: as, an overglaze color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Applied over the glaze; -- said of enamel paintings, which sometimes are seen to project from the surface of the ware.
- adjective Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The outer layer or coat of
glaze on a piece ofpottery - noun A decoration, usually
enamel , applied over aglaze .
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Examples
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Doucai is a porcelain that combines a blue-and-white underglaze with an overglaze decoration.
Treasures in the Royal Attic Margaret Studer 2011
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I made the horizontal lines by dripping the overglaze on the side while the pot was tipped.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Spodumene-Caramel Flowerpot 2008
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I made the horizontal lines by dripping the overglaze on the side while the pot was tipped.
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I made the horizontal lines by dripping the overglaze on the side while the pot was tipped.
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I made the horizontal lines by dripping the overglaze on the side while the pot was tipped.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Spodumene-Caramel Flowerpot 2008
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“The illustrations are mixed media using pencil, gouache, acrylics, and collage, with an overglaze of oil paint”, says the publication page.
Archive 2006-10-01 fusenumber8 2006
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It lay with the greeny-blue overglaze still on it.
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It lay with the greeny-blue overglaze still on it.
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In the late Ming, decoration in overglaze enamels, often in combination with underglaze blue, was used to startling effect, especially in urban areas.
2. China, 1522-1796 2001
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Later, under Tang Ying (173649), the imperial craftsmen developed the elaborate famille rose palette of opaque overglaze enamels, which is distinguished by mixed colors and replacement of ferric oxide red by carmine derived from gold.
1796 2001
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