Making slipware with a geometric decoration with white slip (or more simply “geometric slipware”) involved pouring white (or black-brown) slip into a bowl already coated with a fairly dry red slip or one without any slip and then rocking it from side to side to create a star-shaped pattern. Green or, more rarely, yellow glaze was then applied. The technique was widely used in various regions of the German-speaking part of Switzerland and Liechtenstein from the second half of the 16^th to the 18^th centuries. One of the westernmost find spots for this type of decoration is the pottery assemblage from a shipwreck at Hauterive in Lake Neuchâtel (see Laténium).

Translation Sandy Haemmerle

German: Geschwenkter Engobedekor

French: Décor géométrique à la barbotine (blanche)

References:

Heege 2016
Andreas Heege, Die Ausgrabungen auf dem Kirchhügel von Bendern, Gemeinde Gamprin, Fürstentum Liechtenstein. Bd. 2: Geschirrkeramik 12. bis 20. Jahrhundert, Vaduz 2016, bes. 85 und 139