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Social Sciences - Archaeology / ceramics | | Spanish term or phrase: desgrasante | This in the description of a ceramic piece dating from the 15th century:
Cuerpo cerámico compacto de color beige con desgrasante fino y cocción oxidante.
I've found "desgrasante fino" and "desgrasante medio" in lots of texts about old ceramics, but I'm at a loss as to what it means...anyone know? |
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- mexicon online - XXXI (2009)
... study that claimed San Lorenzo pottery contained only one kind of temper. ... que la cerámica de San Lorenzo recibió únicamente un tipo de desgrasante. ...
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Determining the Function of One of the New World's Earliest ...
The vessels were constructed using fiber-temper and were elaborately decorated. ... El uso de desgrasante de fibra vegetal, decoración elaborada y su ...
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Dictionary of Roman Pottery Terms, English-Spanish-English page 68 ...
desgrasante deposito (de ceramica) desecho distribución. E embudo, fluted, grooved ... grog, temper deposit (of pottery) waster distribution ...
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Explanation:
General term. Explanation in Spanish:Se llama desengrasante a todas las partículas no plásticas que se incluyen en la arcilla. Se emplean para dotar a la pasta una mejor resistencia en crudo, para soportar mejor los cambios de temperatura así como para mejorar la retracción al secarse la pasta. Son sustancias comunes como el cuarzo, la plagioclasa, feldespato potásico, rocas graníticas, arena, polvo de tiestos de barro cocido (chamota), pajas varias, plumas, lutita, escorias granuladas, conchas molidas etc. http://ceramica.wikia.com/wiki/Desengrasante
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Grog: also known as firesand and chamotte. Grog is used in pottery and sculpture to add a gritty, rustic texture called "tooth"; it also reduces shrinkage and aids even drying. This prevents defects such as cracking, crow feet patterning, and lamination. The coarse particles open the green clay body to allow gases to escape. It also adds structural strength to hand-built and thrown pottery during shaping although it can diminish fired strength.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grog_(clay)
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Explanation:
"temper"—nonplastic material such as sand, volcanic ash, crushed rock, crushed pottery (grog), bone or shell—is often added. Without temper, clay forms flat platelets that tend to trap and hold water; temper particles disrupt the clay platelets and allow the walls of the vessel to dry more completely. Different types of clay and different types of temper must be mixed at various ratios to obtain a workable pottery clay.
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/theme/cordmarked/index.htm...
Temper. A material such as shell, grit, or limestone that is added to clay used for pottery manufacture to make it adhere better and reduce the pottery vessel cracking during the drying and firing processes.
http://www.oftimeandtheriver.org/misc/glossary/glossary3.htm
Sand Tempered Ware
The Pharr sand tempered pottery was compared with type sherds collected at the Miller Site (Jennings, 1941) and the Bynum Mounds (Cotter and Corbett, 1951). The comparison showed that the Pharr material fits very comfortably in the Miller ceramic tradition.
Baldwin Plain (figs. 13a and 19e-f)
Paste:
Temper: Abundant, very fine sand. Mica flecks are present in virtually all sherds but are abundant in only a few. They seem to represent the use of a micaceous clay rather than an intentional addition to the paste.
Texture: Fine and homogeneous with temper evenly distributed. Very gritty.
Color: Dull brown, reddish brown, grayish brown, and buff are most characteristic.
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/natr/pharr_m...
Wikipedia:
Se llama desengrasante a todas las partículas no plásticas que se incluyen en la arcilla
http://ceramica.wikia.com/wiki/Desengrasante
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