1) Decoration 2) Ornament 3) Ornamentation 4) Type of pottery decoration
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Sgraffito (plural: sgraffiti; sometimes spelled scraffito) is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface, or in ceramics, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip, and then in either case scratching so as to produce an outline...
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scratching surface of pottery to reveal different colour
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• (a.) Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.
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Technique of creating a design on a pottery surface by scratching or scoring through an unfired slip coating to expose the darker body beneath.
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(Italian: `scratched`), in the visual arts, a technique used in painting, pottery, and glass, which consists of putting down a preliminary surface, ... [1 related articles]
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In art, a linear method of decoration in which a surface is scratched through to reveal a different colour or texture underneath. There are prehistoric examples of its graphic use in Pyrenean caves....
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the technique of applying decoration to buildings by inscribing the finishing coat of a render to reveal the darker colour of the coat below. Sgraffito is Italian for 'scratches', and the process is sometimes refered to rather disparagingly as 'scratch work'. The term is the origin of the word...
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Scratching or cutting through a layer of colour to expose the ground or support, or to bring up a se
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Technique of creating a design on a pottery surface by scratching or scoring through an unfired slip coating to expose the darker body beneath. In 16thC sgraffito ware from the Bologna area of Italy, for example, designs were incised in the white slip coating to reveal a red clay ground. The technique has been much used throughout Europe since medi …...
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Sgraf·fi'to adjective [ Italian ]
(Paint.) Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.
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Sgraffito or graffito is a method of decorating involving scratching through a layer of plaster to reveal a different coloured ground. Sgraffito is an ancient form of decorating, with examples being evident in the ruins of Pompeii.
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Technique in which the surface layer is incised or cut away to reveal a contrasting color.
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The technique of scratching through a coating of slip to reveal the contrasting colour beneath.
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n] - a ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the ground
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A decorative technique in which a sharp tool is used to scratch through a slip to clay below. The same technique is applied to glazed pottery, when designs are scratched through an unfired glaze to show a fired glaze below. Comes from the Italian word meaning ‘scratched through’.
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The cutting or scratching through the outer colour or engobe, using a sgraffito tool, to expose the clay body underneath.
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In ceramics, a tecnique where clay is coated with a colored slip which is carved through to expose the clay. Actually, any coating that is scratched through to expose the background.
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decoration achieved by scratching through a colored slip or a glaze to show the contrasting body color beneath.
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Decorating technique involving scratching through a slip or glaze layer.
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noun a ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the ground
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The technique of cutting or scratching through a coating of slip to reveal the different coloured body beneath.
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