Here in the twelfth century the Moors were producing their famous Hispano-Mooresque lustred wares.
Sometimes the backs of these dishes are as beautifully lustred as the fronts.
The lustred wares of Spain declined late in the thirteenth century, but not before its exportation to Italy by way of Majorca had stimulated the production of Italian Majolica.
The lustre pigments were the same as those used on the earlier lustred wares, and these were painted over an otherwise finished piece.
In spite of its archaic appearance, the Deruta lustred wares are scarcely older than the 16th century, and the style was continued as late as the second half of that century.
The lustred wares of Deruta have marked characteristics, and, though differing in actual treatment from the Hispano-Moresque, their appearance is eloquent in favour of such a derivation.
The earliest record of lustred pottery in Spain is the geographer Edrisi's mention of the manufacture of "golden ware" then carried on at Calatayud in Aragon in 1154.
Left: Polychrome Decoration, Right: Lustred Decoration The earliest lustred ware of Persia is that found in the ruins of the ancient city of Rhages.
Non-lustred pottery with polychrome decoration was also produced at Rhages during this period.
The centre is occupied by portraits of the granters of the edict, shaded with blue on an indigo ground, and having gold and ruby lustred hair, dresses, and head-dresses.
We have said that Xanto of Urbino lustredhis own pieces, but the matter is not free from doubt.
The furnaces described by Piccolpasso as in use among the Italians were of three kinds, one for oxidizing the tin and lead, a second for baking glazed ware, and a third for majolica proper, or lustred ware.
It is a true porcelain and very translucent, and in thin lustred pieces rivals the egg-shell of the far East.
Robinson, and others, that the word 'maiolica' should be again restricted to lustred wares.
What he says about painting majolica, or lustred ware, is, however, interesting.
The wares of Majorca were those best and most generally known, and its name, as changed to majolica, had been given to the entire class of lustred wares, although the art of lustring was already known in Italy.
With such teaching Deruta produced, early in the sixteenth century, majolica of a very high order of merit, with blue grounds and yellow lustred cherubs' heads in relief, and arabesques.
With cupids in relief, coloured with pink metallic lustred clouds.
Beneath each tablet is an angel standing with extended wings upon a bracket oflustred earthenware, and holding an open book.
Behold this cup within whose bowl, Upon a ground of deepest blue With yellow-lustred stars o'erlaid, Colors of every tint and hue Mingle in one harmonious whole!
Oh, make your haven sure, and try how ye come by conversion; that it be not stolen goods, in a white and well-lustred profession!
Majesty (eternity's Bloom and Flower of high lustred beauty) might shine upon pieces of created spirits, and might bedew and overflow us, who are portions of endless misery and lumps of redeemed sin.
He hath man's love in heaven, but it is lustred with God's love, and it is very God's love ye have to do with.
I verily count the sufferings of my Lord more than this world's lustred and over-gilded glory.
They who are past with their last sentence to heaven or hell, and have made their reckoning, and departed out of this smoky inn, have now no other conceit of this world, but as a piece of beguiling well-lustred clay.
Ye are taught to know and adore His sovereignty, which He exerciseth over you, which yet is lustred with mercy.
Against his will the phrase said itself over and over again throbbingly behind his eyes, and again he forgot everything in the vision of the lustred pots.
All right," called Cleghorn, giving a few strokes of the pump, but never taking his eyes from the lustred pots.
Before the lustred pots themselves shed a baleful gleam over this narrative, something should obviously be said about Italian wells and why they contain pots.
It is highly probable that lustred ware was also made there to a great extent, not only because it was the most characteristic produce of the Peninsula, but also because this ware was exported to a great extent, and highly esteemed.
The king was most anxious to revive to a great extent the almost extinct industry of metallic lustred pottery, and thanks to this we are able to know most accurately the receipt and manner in which this lustre was applied.
I regret to have found no other allusion to the lustred ware of Aragon until the 10th century.
The opinion which has been so generally accepted that gold lustred pottery was made and exported from the Balearic Islands has been contradicted by D^{n}.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lustred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
