Meaning of stone-paste | Babel Free

Definitions

A mixture of clay and frit used to create ceramics.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“Mason and Tite propse that Islamic stone-paste material may have been developed by migrant Iraqi potters in Egypt in the +10ᵗʰ to +11ᵗʰ centuries, after some initial experiments with adding powdered glass to clay bodies in Iraq in the +9th century.”

“Later tiles were made from a compound called “stone-paste”—a mixture of ground quartz, glaze frit, and white clay.”

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