Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

black slipped  

Definition

  • Any pottery to which a slip, a thin layer of fine clay, is applied to pottery before firing by dipping the pot into a thick liquid mixture of clay and water. Slip decorates the fabric, is often chosen to bake to a color such as red and makes the pot more

Source

  • Kipfer, B. A. Dictionary of Artifacts 2007. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.p 264

In other languages

URI

https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/defcthesaurus/black_slipped/4.258

Download this concept: