sgraffito in English
noun
1
a form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color, typically done in plaster or stucco on walls, or in slip on ceramics before firing.
Here the last vestiges of the figurative, a few delicately poised hands, flowers and shells, are subsumed into patterned and highly coloured surfaces of glazes, scumbles, impasto, sgraffito , stipples, dots and splodges of paint.
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1. 39.7 x 14.5 x 14.5 , Porcelain, wheel thrown with hand built additions, glazes, lustre, incising Lidded jar with sgraffito drawing of Newfoundland shore and village landscape with coloured sky; on the dome-shaped lid is a modelled figure of an accordion player playing; the figure is two thirds again the height of the jar itself; colours are strong, with the lid and figure in shiny black except for the head, hands and accordion of the player which are white with brown and orange; the land is black and the waters are mottled blue and green and purple.