Origins of Lead Glaze Technology of the Ceramics of Kazan Kremlin

Abstract

Relevance of the studied problem is conditioned by a possibility to recovery information on the time and place of vessels production that allows to set the directions of trade relations and to establish a level of technologies development and features of vocational schools. The article studies the fragments of glazed ceramic pottery found on the territory of Kazan Kremlin from 1994 to 2001. The main research method of a problem was the method of the emission spectrum analysis. Study of the element glaze composition showed that it is made of the so-called "lead" compounding and has a chemical composition similar to ceramics from the large production centers that existed during various periods: Kadikalesi in and in the cities of the Crimea of the 13th -14th centuries. The conducted researches show continuity of production technologies of glazed ceramics of different schools.