Jun ware glaze colours: An X-ray absorption spectroscopy study

Jun ware is stoneware created in the late Northern Song dynasty (12th century) with a blue glaze combining transparent-blue and whitish-opaque submillimetric areas. The glaze has a glass nanostructure with lime-rich droplets in a silica-rich matrix resulting from a high temperature liquid-liquid pha...

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Autores: Yuan, Mingyue, Hou, Jiayu, Gorni, Giulio, Crespo Artiaga, Daniel|||0000-0003-1743-2400, Li, Yuan, Pradell Cara, Trinitat|||0000-0002-8720-5492
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/365583
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/365583
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2022.02.016
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ceramic materials
Fe K-pre-edge fitting
Metallic copper nanoparticles
Iron oxidation state
Absorption and scattering
Glass nanostructure
Jun ware glaze
Materials ceràmics
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:Jun ware is stoneware created in the late Northern Song dynasty (12th century) with a blue glaze combining transparent-blue and whitish-opaque submillimetric areas. The glaze has a glass nanostructure with lime-rich droplets in a silica-rich matrix resulting from a high temperature liquid-liquid phase separation. Calcium-rich opaque and calcium-poor transparent areas are combined. Iron is more oxidised in the calcium rich areas (˜17–20% Fe2+) than in the calcium poor areas (˜60–70% Fe2+) of the glaze. Therefore, iron is oxidised in the lime-rich droplets and reduced in the silica-rich matrix. The sky-like appearance of the glaze is due to the combination of the light absorption in the transparent-dark-blue Fe2+ rich areas and scattering in the white-yellowish Fe3+ rich areas. Copper appears mainly oxidised but in the red areas a few small copper nanoparticles are present and iron appears more oxidised. The result indicates the simultaneous reduction of copper and oxidation of iron.