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BLACK BASALTES [5 records]

Record 1 1997-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Antique Ceramics (Museums and Heritage)
DEF

A term frequently applied only to Jasper ware developed by Josiah Wedgwood, but which properly includes many other wares made by this factory, including Queen's ware, tortoiseshell ware, agate ware, black basaltes, Etruscan ware, rosso antico, Parian porcelain, variegated ware, cauliflower ware, Wedgwood coloured bodies, and Wedgwood lustre, all of which are closely identified with Wedgwood although they were also made elsewhere.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Céramique ancienne (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
OBS

Wedgwood : Potier anglais. Burslem 1730 - Etruria (comté de Stafford) 1795. Après un solide apprentissage de sculpteur, il se spécialisa dans l'art de la céramique et de la porcelaine dont la vogue devait se répandre en Angleterre et en Europe tout au long de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe s. C'est en 1769 qu'il fonda sa manufacture au nom révélateur, «Etruria», autour de laquelle naquit une agglomération. La diffusion des porcelaines de Wedgwood fait de lui l'un des principaux représentants du goût qui caractérisa cette époque.

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Antique Ceramics (Museums and Heritage)
  • Stoneware
DEF

A name adopted by Josiah Wedgwood to designate a black stoneware perfected by him c. 1768. However, black wares had been made in Staffordshire before this date, the earliest by the Elers brothers at the beginning of the 18th century.

CONT

Black basaltes is a fine-grained unglazed body stained with cobalt and manganese oxides. It could be cut and polished on a lathe or a lapidary's wheel, and was the first strictly ornamental ware to be developed by Wedgwood, although production also included wares of domestic utility.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Céramique ancienne (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
  • Grès
Key term(s)
  • grès noir

Spanish

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Record 3 1996-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ceramic Raw Materials
DEF

A non-porous stoneware that required no glaze; it was made by adding to local clay various colouring oxides or coloured earths to create the desired effect.

OBS

Dry bodies made by Wedgwood include cane-ware, bamboo-ware, jasper, black basaltes, and rosso antico. The interior of useful wares made with this body is sometimes glazed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matières premières céramiques
CONT

Corps secs. C'est la pâte des grès-cérames, sans vernis.

Spanish

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Record 4 1996-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Terra Cotta
CONT

... the term black basaltes was the name given by Wedgwood to his black stoneware introduced around 1769. It was the first ornamental ware developed by Wedgwood.... Wedgwood used black basaltes for both ornamental and useful wares.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Terres cuites
OBS

Wedgwood, Josiah. [...] Il reprend le basaltes, grès noir, mat et très dur pour imiter les poteries étrusques alors à la mode.

Key term(s)
  • grès noir sec

Spanish

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Record 5 1996-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ceramic Raw Materials
  • Stoneware
DEF

A non-porous stoneware that required no glaze; it was made by adding to local clay various colouring oxides or coloured earths to create the desired effect.

CONT

Dry bodies made by Wedgwood include cane-ware, bamboo-ware, jasper, black basaltes, and rosso antico. The interior of useful wares made with this body is sometimes glazed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matières premières céramiques
  • Grès
DEF

[...] pâte des grès-cérames, sans vernis.

Spanish

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