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‖ cuenca|ˈkwɛŋkə| [Sp., bowl, socket.] Used attrib. of the decoration of tiles: ornamented with sunken patterns surrounded by a raised outline.
[1911Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 973/1 About 1550..there arose the method de cuenca in which the parts of the design to receive different coloured enamels were stamped, slightly concave.., their edges alone being left in relief. 1925B. Rackham in Hannover's Pott. & Porc. I. 550 De cuenca (‘cell’) tiles, the term..was invented as a designation by J. Gestoso y Perez, author of Historia de los barros vidriados Sevillanos, 1903.] 1939A. Lane Guide to Tiles vii. 59 Patterns were sunk in the soft surface of the tile..in this..cuenca (hollow) technique. 1960R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Contin. Pott. 477/1 Ceiling tiles were extensively made in Spain from the sixteenth century with coloured glazes in the cuenca technique. |