Sgraffito

The large plate you so greatly admired is called sgraffito or scratched work, sometimes called slip engraving. ❋ Edith Matilda Thomas (1889)

Used in a technique called sgraffito, whereby a thin layer of Overlay paste is applied to the glazed porcelain or glass, allowed to dry, and a pointed instrument used to scratch a design into the layer, allowing t he porcelain or glass beneath to appear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then the master made his sketch in white, or "sgraffito" (i.e. graven on the plaster), as in the architectural lines of the pictures of patron saints in the Uffizi, and the _Marriage of S. Catherine_ in the Pitti Palace; he also put in the shadows in monochrome. ❋ Leader Scott (1869)

I believe the clay coated board is so that you can incise or abraid through the clay to expose a white surface for fine detail, like scratchboard or sgraffito. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Latex and enamel paints, black ink wash, pen and black and red ink, sgraffito ❋ Unknown (2009)

His sgraffito style made him popular very quickly. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Many buildings date back to the 15th and 16th centuries and are painted with coats of arms or engraved with sgraffito designs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This group is characterized by simple sgraffito decoration of concentric circles under a bright yellow-brown glaze and takes the forms of cups, plates, and bowls, all supported on a raised foot. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some of the best examples of the sgraffito technique occur when the overlying glaze highlights the incised decoration. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I know a great deal on this subject as well as sgraffito, fresco and other decorative plasters/stuccoes. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Decorated tableware mainly comprises yellow - and green-glazed large dishes with incised (sgraffito) decorative motifs (hares and wavy lines), imported from the Aegean region. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Imported sgraffito ware decorated with hares and wavy lines from the fortress on Alexander's Hill (twelfth-thirteenth century A.D.) ❋ Unknown (2003)

Somewhat similar in appearance to the English sgraffito-ware, the desired design was scratched through the cream-colored slip, revealing the reddish-brown body beneath. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

English sgraffito-ware, several incomplete earthenware holders, and parts of delftware candlesticks. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

The English sgraffito-ware found at Jamestown was made near Barnstaple, in North Devonshire, probably after 1640. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

The 17th-century Italian maiolica-ware found at Jamestown is a red-body earthenware with scratched or incised designs -- a true sgraffito-ware. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

He decorated the exterior of many Roman palaces in sgraffito, a form of painting where, over a dark background, often stucco, a lighter-coloured layer was painted, and designs, scratched through the light layer, only showed dark on light (en camaïeu). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)