Painted decorations using metal oxides (mixed with fluxing agents) applied on top of the finished, glost-fired glaze, and then fixed during a third firing (muffle firing) at a low temperature (750 to 800˚C). Overglaze decoration is mainly found on elaborately decorated faience, porcelain and refined white earthenware.

Synonym: Decoration with low-temperature colours, on-glaze decoration

Translation Sandy Haemmerle

German: Aufglasurmalerei

French: Peintures de petit feu, peintures de réverbère, couleurs de moufle

References:

Maggetti 2007
Marino Maggetti, Technique de la faïence française (fin XVIIIe/debut XIXe siècle), in: Marino Maggetti, La faïence de Fribourg: 1753-1844, Dijon 2007, 14-31.