fritware

English

Etymology

From frit +‎ -ware.

Noun

fritware (countable and uncountable, plural fritwares)

  1. Pottery in which frit is added to clay to reduce its fusion temperature.
    • 1994, Gülru Necipoğlu, Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, →ISBN, page 31:
      The twelfth and thirteenth centuries constitute a high point in the history of Islamic ceramics, with finely potted and decorated fritwares produced in both Syria and Iran.
  2. A combination of clay and frit used to create fritware.
    • 1997, Ian Freestone, David R. M. Gaimster, POTTERY IN THE MAKING PB, page 114:
      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.
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