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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 144869, member: 25&quot;]Properly fired the overglaze would be as durable as the original. It would be fused to the old glaze which is fused to the body.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, if they merely use a heat hardened enamel paint, like car body finish, the item would not be glazed, just painted. </p><p><br /></p><p>It would be pretty durable so it would almost certainly do the job, but not be the same as actual glazing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ask what the kiln temperature is. Oven heat, 2 to 300 degrees C. is curing paint, just over 1000 degrees C. is proper glazing temperature. </p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect that their kiln is just an oven, really. It takes a long time to heat and cool a proper kiln, and a fair amount of energy. </p><p><br /></p><p>They would need to accumulate a kiln full of objects before firing, unless the local population are queuing up to decorate porcelain it might take some time to get a kiln full.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since firing temperature would just about melt gold, you could melt some gold scrap at the same time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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