Sugar bowl cover
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1840
Materials
red earthenware, silver lustre glaze
Measurements
52 mm (Height); 76 mm (Diameter)
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Greys Court, Oxfordshire
NT 195218.2
Summary
Cover for a sugar bowl, red earthenware, ring finial, glazed with silver lustre, English, circa 1840.
Full description
Lustreware is a type of porcelain or pottery with a metallic glaze which gives the effect of iridescence. This effect is produced by metallic oxides that are applied in an overglaze finish which is then given a second firing within a reduction kiln.