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stone-paste en · NOUN

Etymology

From stone + paste.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A mixture of clay and frit used to create ceramics.
   • Mason and Tite propse that Islamic stone-paste material may have been developed by migrant Iraqi potters in Egypt in the +10ᵗʰ to +11ᵗʰ centuries, after some initial experiments with adding powdered glass to clay bodies in Iraq in the +9th century. 2004, Rose Kerr, Joseph Needham, Nigel Wood, Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, →ISBN:
   • Later tiles were made from a compound called “stone-paste”—a mixture of ground quartz, glaze frit, and white clay. 2009, Erinn Corson, Successful Strategies for Teaching World Geography, →ISBN, page 78:
   • Akin to European soft-paste porcelain, this material, known as fritware or stone-paste, is described in the fourtheenth-century treatise of Ahu'l Qasim as consisting of ten parts ground quartz, one part ground glass and one part fine white clay. 1997, Ian Freestone, David R. M. Gaimster, POTTERY IN THE MAKING PB, page 114:

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