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Glazed Double Gourd Bottle

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« Reply #40 on: August 24, 2016, 04:08:51 am »

Dear all,
a clarification, just to be precise:
I did call the underglaze cobalt blue “slip”. I did use this word to distinguish it from “enamel”, which is a different thing. It may not be a correct word, but due to my bad English I did use that to give the idea that the under glaze cobalt is made by diluting the cobalt in water, like an ink for example, but I thought that “cobalt ink” should sound even less correct, so I called it “slip” meaning that it is a diluted solution of a color. I hope that now it is better understanding what I meant.
For sure, it is not correct to call “enamel” the under glaze cobalt blue because an enamel is a glass-like colored layer, which is thick and it “cover” the substrate, being it the biscuit body or a glazed body; while the blue cobalt is not a covering layer, it is a colored liquid absorbed either by the body and the superposed glaze.
Kind regards
Giovanni
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