Incrustation (ceramic)
Incrustation (Latin: encrustation, deposit) is the name for the colored, but often also whitish (calcareous) inclusions in decorations or patterns in pottery and the manual covering of the surface of ceramics with a type-like substance that stands out from the substrate due to its color and shine that adheres in a cold or hot way. The crust-forming material fills the recessed ornamentation of the surfaces. The crust is the hardened, often highly structured material of the coating. The cold path incrustation process has been known since the Neolithic Age ( Bükker culture , Rössen culture , Vučedol culture ). The chemical excretion that takes place in desert varnish is also referred to as incrustation .
literature
- Emil Hoffmann: Lexicon of the Stone Age (Munich 1999) p. 185 ISBN 3-406-42125-3 .