6. Identification of productions, fakes and restorations: some examples

6.1 White and blue

We'll take a few examples to illustrate the identification of specific technologies (various uses of lapis lazuli, until recently considered too rare to be used as a pigment in glasses and ceramics, a wide range of opacifiers: tin oxide (figure 15 ), microbubbles (figure 16 ), arsenates, zircons...), discrimination between objects/original parts and fakes/restorations. With the exception of porcelains prepared from very pure kaolins, the body...