Lustreware
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Lustreware or lusterware is a type of pottery or porcelain with a metallic glaze that gives the effect of iridescence. It is produced by metallic oxides in an overglaze finish, which is given a second
Staffordshire pottery jug, c. 1815
Fritware dish, Persia, 13th century
Mary Magdalene on Italian maiolica dish, Gubbio, 1530–1540
Bowl from Iraq, mid-800s. Lustre technique. Room 42–43, British Museum. 1956,0728.2
Faience
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Faience or faïence is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the s
Lustreware
…on mirror platforms to be used as centrepieces for dinner parties. Gaslights accentuated their lustrousness. Sugar bowl from a coffee set, French faience from Sarreguemines, c. 1810 English urn for the American market, 19th century Vase by William de Morgan, 1888–98, English Belgian vase, 20th century…
Modern bowl in a traditional pattern, made in Faenza, Italy, which gave its name to the type
Sophisticated Rococo Niderviller faience, by a French factory that also made porcelain, 1760–65
Hispano-Moresque ware dish from Manises, 15th century, the earliest type of European faience
Rococo tureen, Marseille, c. 1770