rosso antico
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Rosso antico refers to a deep red, unglazed Wedgwood stoneware that resembles boccaro ware. This type of pottery was produced in England in the 18th century by Josiah Wedgwood. Stoneware itself is pottery fired at high temperatures until it becomes glasslike and impervious to liquid. While often opaque, some stoneware can be translucent.12
The term "rosso antico" also describes a deep red Grecian marble used by ancient Romans, and a porphyritic diorite favored by ancient Egyptians and Romans.1
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stoneware…Josiah Wedgwood, who called it rosso antico.
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pottery18th-century developments…was the red stoneware (rosso antico), which sometimes had an enamelled decoration of classical subjects, and caneware, a buff stoneware.
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