New review on lead-barium silicate products of the Warring States Period
Lead-barium silicate is a typical composition of faience and glass in ancient China.In this paper,we firstly declare that lead-barium silicate products consist of lead-barium glazed pottery,lead-barium faience,lead-barium glass and copper barium silicate pigment,and mainly focus on the former three and further point out that it is not appropriate to use"lead-barium glass"to refer to all types of lead-barium silicate products.Then we summarize the excavation sites and times of lead-barium silicate products of the Warring States Period,and re-review the opinions that lead-barium faience is the precursor of lead-barium glass.Based on these works,we propose that lead-barium glazed pottery and faience are not the pioneers of lead-barium glass,and that the emergence of these three lead-barium silicate products in the early Warring States Period is more likely the application of new lead-barium fluxes to different materials.
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