Seeking lead-based glazes.

[jmspires]

I am a sculptor/potter looking for lead-based glazes for nonfunctional use. Many of these have been discontinued under government pressures and guidelines. Duncan and Mayco reds, oranges, yellows, silvers, and blacks in any quantities are desireable. There has to be some caches out there in commercial or private storerooms. Please reply, if you have any. I will pay reasonable prices and shipping.

[Anneke]

Hello JMspires,
Here in the Netherlands the brush-on glazes are also lead-free. Mostly because a lot of them come from the US. What we do use, and still is available, is a lead based frit. Is this available in the US? With a simple recipe and some colorants you can make the most beatiful glazes.
Greetings, Anneke

[ClayRoses]

Hi. You're sort of in luck. The ceramic department of the Brevard Art Museum School here in Central Florida has a couple hundred little jars of old lead based ceramics glazes. They were donated to us by some non-ceramic soul who found them in the basement of a building that was once used as a porcelain doll studio. We can't use them for a myriad of reasons and we haven't had a chance to dispose of them safely yet either.

We don't have enough staff here to sort through them all and pick out what you might like - but if you have a friend who lives in the Central Florida area that can take them all off our hands ASAP, you can have 'em all for free.

I don't know how experienced of a potter you are to be looking for toxic glazes, but you should know that if you want to use lead based glazes, you need to have an ENTIRELY SEPARATE KILN to fire lead glazed pieces. Lead is very volatile, and can coat the insides of a kiln, and will redeposit itself on pieces in subsequent firings - rendering your functional ware lead contaminated.

[cinzia]

Hi!
I have some discontinued Duncan Crystaltone (and other) glazes that you can have, if you pay the shipping. They were donated, but I'd like to remove them from my classroom. Some are in good shape, others are dried out.