This article summarises the history of cinnabar, from its first uses in burials to modern oils on
canvas. After a brief introduction on mercury and contamination issues, the article gets to the …

Lustre ceramic decoration was revealed by analytical electron microscopy to have been the
first nanostructured metallic thin film made by man. Considering this type of decoration in the …

Lustre was one of the most sophisticated techniques for the decoration of majolicas during
the Renaissance period. Lustre consists of a thin metallic film containing silver, copper and …

Analysis of medieval luster ceramics seems to indicate that the formation of luster layers
could involve an ion exchange between some alkali ions of the glaze (Na+ and K+), and …

This paper studies some ceramic lustreware dishes with metallic glaze dating back to the
Abbasid era (2-3rd century AH/8-9th AD) and preserved in Rashid archaeological stores …

In the present work, we report the analyses of glaze and decorations present on the surface
of Renaissance Umbrian pottery, performed by means of different spectroscopic and optical …

In this paper the study of four significant lustre samples covering 9th century AD polychrome
and 10th century AD monochrome lustre from Iraq is presented. The samples selected are …

Using a combination of historical, archaeological, and scientific data is not an uncommon
research practice. Rarely found, however, is a more overt critical consideration of how these …

Luster is a metal glass nanocomposite layer first produced in the Middle East in early Islamic
times (9th AD) made of metal copper or silver nanoparticles embedded in a silica-based …

In the early 9th century AD ancient potters of Iraq discovered that after firing some copper
oxides and silver salts with clay, iron oxides and some sulphur compounds applied on a …