Siderolite

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Siderolite (literally iron stone ) is a white or colored, plastic clay that is prepared, shaped and fired in the same way as for earthenware . The objects are then not glazed , but rather coated with a colored or bronze varnish after firing , sometimes also provided with gilding, and then dried in the oven at moderate heat.

Especially in the period between 1880 and 1930 as baskets, flower pots, traffic lights were out Siderolith many favorable articles vases , tobacco tins, piggy banks , Fidibusbecher , writing tools, figures, etc. produced. The production was mainly carried out in Bohemia , in the Thuringian Forest and at Nymphenburg in Bavaria . Well-known manufacturers were Bernhard Bloch and Johann Maresch . Siderolite goods from this period are very popular among collectors.

Siderolite is also an outdated name for stone-iron meteorites , which consist of roughly equal proportions of metallic iron and silicate minerals .

literature

Rainer [G.] Richter, Early Siderolith and Terralith Ware in Saxony. In: Keramos. Journal of the Gesellschaft der Keramikfreunde eV, issue 116. April 1987, pp. 31–42 (with 15 illustrations) ders. In the catalog of masterpieces of the 18th and 19th centuries - Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden in Pillnitz Castle, authors Gisela Haase, Igor A. Jenzen , Rainer [G.] Richter, Dresden 1996 p. 108 f., Cat. No. 66 and 67, p. 124. Cat.-No. 76 (with 3 ills.)

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