a composition used for ornamenting pottery.

a lustrous quality reminiscent of moonlight; esp. a lustre glaze with a marbled effect used on porcelain in the early 19th cent., spec. by the…

a name for a kind of bitumen (see quot. 1838), or for petroleum or rock-oil; also applied to a mixture of petrosilex and water used as a glaze for…

a composition used for silvering potter's ware.

An applied glass-like or vitreous coating, usually on metal; vitreous enamel; = enamel, n. 1a.

A transparent glaze used to finish Italian maiolica earthenware.

A glaze applied over another; (Ceramics) decoration applied on to the glazed surface of a piece. Cf. under-glaze, adj. n.

absol. as n. in the same sense.

A film of glaze given as a final coating to later Italian majolica ware.

popular name for (a) a yellowish brown quartz wth brilliant lustre, used as a gem (also called tiger-eye): see crocidolite, n.; (b) a crystalline…

a glaze for fine pottery, having an oxide of tin as a basis.

a brown or black glaze streaked with silvery white or yellow used on some Chinese pottery.

a glaze containing lead oxide; so lead-glazed adj., lead-glazier, lead-glazing n.

white tin-glaze decorated in enamel colours.

A bright red glaze for porcelain, made from copper oxide and originally developed in China. Cf. flambé, adj. 1.

the pink lustre characteristic of Sunderland lustreware; (also) Sunderland lustreware itself.

trade name of a porcelain glaze having a changeable iridescent lustre.

a cobalt blue pigment, chiefly imported from Iran, used as an underglaze colour on Chinese porcelain of the Ming dynasty.

The rose-pink colour of peach blossom; (Ceramics) a similar shade characteristic of the monochrome glazes on some Chinese porcelain; the glaze…

‘A deep red colour found on old Chinese porcelain’ (Stanf.). Also transferred, a ceramic glaze of this colour; porcelain bearing such a glaze. Also…

lead oxide used as a glaze.