engobes

The application of slips or engobes, colored clays applied directly to the ceramic body without a covering glaze, was another important decorative technique for eighteenth-century pottery, one that more clearly illustrates the symbiotic relationship between object and decoration technique. 43 Wedgwood's encaustic ceramics, created to imitate red-figure vases, were among the most famous instances of this style.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Recipes for engobes look like those for glazes with a high percentage of refractory ingredients.

10. Decoration 1993

Here we will only discuss some of the main techniques for using glazes and engobes.

10. Decoration 1993

Usually engobes designed for plastic clay will not fit on bone dry or biscuit clay and vice versa.

10. Decoration 1993

Coloring oxides are added to engobes as a percentage, as with glazes.

10. Decoration 1993

This is the best stage for applying engobes, as it permits the widest range of decorating techniques (brushing, incising, inlaying, stencil etc. - see below).

10. Decoration 1993

Colored engobes can also be termed underglaze colors.

12. Developing glazes 1993

The nonplastic ingredients are feldspar and quartz, and for low-temperature engobes frit is sometimes added to lower the vitrification point.

10. Decoration 1993

- Add clay or quartz to underglaze pigments and engobes.

11. Glaze problems 1993

For white engobes, the plastic ingredients are china clay and ball clay.

10. Decoration 1993