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- Title
Glancing-incidence X-ray diffraction of Ag nanoparticles in gold lustre decoration of Italian Renaissance pottery.
- Authors
Bontempi, E.; Colombi, P.; Depero, L. E.; Cartechini, L.; Presciutti, F.; Brunetti, B. G.; Sgamellotti, A.
- Abstract
Lustre is known as one of the most significant decorative techniques of Medieval and Renaissance pottery in the Mediterranean basin, characterized by brilliant gold and red metallic reflections and iridescence effects. Previous studies by various techniques (SEM-EDS and TEM, UV-VIS, XRF, RBS and EXAFS) demonstrated that lustre consists of a heterogeneous metal-glass composite film, formed by Cu and Ag nanoparticles dispersed within the outer layer of a tin-opacified lead glaze. In the present work the investigation of an original gold lustre sample from Deruta has been carried out by means of glancing-incidence X-ray diffraction techniques (GIXRD). The study was aimed at providing information on structure and depth distribution of Ag nanoparticles. Exploiting the capability of controlling X-ray penetration in the glaze by changing the incidence angle, we used GIXRD measurements to estimate non-destructively thickness and depth of silver particles present in the first layers of the glaze.
- Subjects
RENAISSANCE pottery; MEDIEVAL pottery; SPECTRUM analysis instruments; NANOPARTICLES; GLAZING (Ceramics); LUSTER-ware; IMAGING systems in archaeology; ARCHAEOLOGY methodology
- Publication
Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 2006, Vol 83, Issue 4, p543
- ISSN
0947-8396
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00339-006-3524-1