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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Very slight tan to page edges. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> What is meant by ‘slipware’? It sounds like skating or sliding not like pottery and many people seem to be unclear about the meaning of this term. Firstly it is lead-glazed earthenware – firing temperature between 890?C and 1100?C. Secondly the pots are decorated with coloured ‘slip’ before they are fired in the kiln. Slip is clay mixed with water. If it is used for covering the body of the pot then I call it pouring slip or engobe. It has a thin batter-like consistency and is usually of a contrasting colour to the body clay; for example white on a red clay. Slip trailing is the method of decorating the pot with slip from either a cow-horn a small clay vessel and quill rubber bulb and pipette or the ‘Mary Wondrausch inner tube and pipette’. For this last technique thicker slip is used and lightly extruded. All work that is earthenware and decorated in any way with slips before firing is called slipware. This includes sgraffito which is the technique of scratching through a leather-hard covering slip to reveal the contrasting clay body underneath or in some cases to reveal another slip applied below as in Beauvais ware. There is an additional group of wares that come roughly under the sgraffito heading as the possibilities of the method are explored. For example: brushing different coloured slips on to the leather-hard background; cutting out the background to reveal large areas of the body colour; painting with oxides such as copper and cobalt to enhance the scratched drawing. (LL)