 | John Nock Bagnall - Wednesbury (England) - 1854 - 220 pages
...dry they paint them with the 'slip.' After the vessels are painted they ' lead' them with lead-ore, beaten into dust, finely sifted, and strewed upon...them, which gives them the gloss, but not the colour. After this they are carried to the oven, which is ordinarily above eight feet high, and about six feet... | |
 | Llewellynn Frederick W. Jewitt - 1865 - 518 pages
...pretty dry. After the vessels are painted they lead them with that sort of Lead Ore they call Smithum, which is the smallest ore of all, beaten into dust,...the colours being chiefly given by the variety of slips, except the motley colour, which is procured by blending the Lead with Manganese, by the workmen... | |
 | Eliza Meteyard - Potters - 1865 - 550 pages
...dry. After the vessels are painted, they lead them with that sort of lead ore they call " smithum," which is the smallest ore of all, beaten into dust,...the colours being chiefly given by the variety of slips, except the motley colour, which is procured by blending the lead with manganese, by the workmen... | |
 | Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt - Potters - 1865 - 468 pages
...pretty dry. After the vessels are painted they lead them with that sort of Lead Ore they call Smithum, which is the smallest ore of all, beaten into dust,...the colour ; all the colours being chiefly given by tho variety of slips, except the motley colour, which is procured by blending the Lead with Manganese,... | |
 | Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain) - Pottery - 1871 - 298 pages
...pretty dry. After the vessels are painted, they lead them, with that sort of lead ore they call Smithnm, which is the smallest ore of all beaten into dust,...the colours being chiefly given by the variety of slips, except the Motley colour, which is procured by blending the lead with manganese, by the workmen... | |
 | Simeon Shaw - Porcelain - 1900 - 288 pages
...pretty dry. After the vessels are painted, thev lead them, with that sort of Lead Ore they call Smithum which is the smallest Ore of all, beaten into dust,...the colours being chiefly given by the variety of Slips, except the Motley colour, which is procured by blending the Lead with Manganese, by the Workmen... | |
 | George Woolliscroft Rhead, Frederick Alfred Rhead - History of pottery - 1906 - 548 pages
...pretty dry. After the vessels are painted, they lead them, with that sort of Lead Ore they call Smithum, which is the smallest Ore of all, beaten into dust,...the colours being chiefly given by the variety of slips, except the Motley colour, which is procured by blending the Lead with Manganese, by the Workmen... | |
 | Edwin Atlee Barber - Glazes - 1907 - 102 pages
...ware: " After the vessels are painted they lead them with that sort of Lead Ore they call Smithum, which is the smallest ore of all, beaten into dust, finely sifted, and strewn upon them; which gives them the gloss, but not the colour; all the Colours being chiefly given... | |
 | Josiah Clement Wedgwood - Potters - 1913 - 300 pages
...pretty dry. After the vessels are painted they lead them, with that sort of lead ore they call smithum, which is the smallest ore of all, beaten into dust,...the colours being chiefly given by the variety of slips, except the motley colour, which is procured by blending the lead with manganese, by the workmen... | |
 | Jonathan Rickard - Pottery, British - 2006 - 212 pages
...painted, tliey lead tliem. witli that son of /.<W Oír they call Smttkwti wliicli is the smallest Ore ol all. beaten into dust, finely sifted and strewed upon them; which gives them the^/ess, but not the colour; all the «¿ши being chiefly ¿iven by the variety of Slips, except... | |
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Smithum, which is the smallest ore of all, beaten into dust, finely sifted," and strewed upon them ; which gives them the gloss, but not the colour; all the colours being chiefly given by the variety of slips, except the motley colour, which is procured... 
