He also decorated in sgraffito the house of Andrea and Tommaso Sertini, near S.
The sgraffito ware probably served as much for decoration as for practical use.
However, certain kinds of sgraffito ware continued to be made without apparent interruption until early in the present century.
Thus they were carefully preserved and passed on from generation to generation, with a higher chance for survival than that which the sgraffito tablewares enjoyed.
An isolated example of sgraffito pottery, distinguished by crude design and glaze, dates from before 1640.
The style of sgraffito decoration changed radically after about 1700.
The sgraffito pottery is a red earthenware, coated with a white slip through which designs have been incised.
This is the only harvest jug yet encountered with a history of use in America and the only North Devon sgraffito piece known to have survived above ground on this continent.
This is the only New England site of which we are aware that has yielded North Devon sgraffito ware.
Worth Bailey, then museum technician at Jamestown, was the first to recognize the source of the sgraffito ware as "Devonshire.
Bailey's attribution of the sgraffito ware to Devonshire was confirmed in 1950 when J.
Finally, the limitations of sgraffito as a method of expression are the same as those of all incised or line work.
Sgraffito from its very nature "asserts the wall"; that is, preserves the solid appearance of the building which it is intended to decorate.
Of the potter's sgraffito I have no experience, but it is my present purpose briefly and practically to examine the method, special aptitudes, and limitations of polychrome sgraffito as applied to the plasterer's craft.
Sgraffito work may claim a special aptitude for design whose centre of aim is line.
As usual the whole, except the windows and the angles, is plastered and has a sgraffito frieze running round under the cornice.
Inside there are still fine tiles, but the sgraffito frieze has nearly disappeared from the outer cornice.
The large plate you so greatly admired is called sgraffito or scratched work, sometimes called slip engraving.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sgraffito" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
