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Crazing on pottery pieces
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Posted by justlinda (My Page) on Fri, Oct 30, 09 at 17:10
| I have a couple of pottery pieces, one of which is a mug and saucer, Canadian-made with red clay and which are not considered antiques. When held under a very bright light, I can see light crazing under the glaze.
Is this a bad thing? I have seen some very old china with this crazing, and which have discolored, probably from tea, etc. seeping in the crazing......
I'm wondering now about other stuff....old antique type things ~~ like should they just be avoided, does it diminish their value, etc.
Thanks for all opinions. |
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RE: Crazing on pottery pieces
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Certain pottery just crazes....comes from having a vitrified(glassy) glaze over a non vitrified body which expand and contract at different rates....for softer pottery it's just not to be helped....you see an eBay sellec calling them "usual gar crazing"....but anything is worth more without.
The problem is that the body beneath is porous and absorbs tea, coffee, beet juice and just dirty stuff!
The most eyeopening thing to me was when I bought a lovely old blue pottery pie plate.....crazed but didn't look discolored.
So I make a beautiful apple pie in it....and it leaked and oozed awful black grease all over the outside!! EWW!!!
I now use it for potato chips!
Linda C |
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