XRF reading on food surface of dish (cream speckled background area):
60-second reading
XRF reading on food surface of dish (cream speckled background area):- Lead (Pb): 31 +/- 11 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 74 +/- 31 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 4,147 +/- 99 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 189 +/- 74 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 16,300 +/- 400 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 189 +/- 36 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 2,066 +/- 180 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 385 +/- 136 ppm
Brown edging tested with similar readings.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions; I will do my best to answer them personally as soon as I have a moment. Thank you for reading and for sharing my posts.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
Would most stoneware dishes be similar to this? I have a ton of old stoneware. I’ll send some to you, if you want to test it.
Hi Anna – it really depends on colors and age and source of manufacture (artist or mass manufactured). I have quite a few stoneware examples on the blog. Look through the posts on this link:
https://tamararubin.com/?s=stoneware
Tamara
Hello! I have my grandparents set of tableware that is similar to this and I’m wondering if you happen to know if they are lead safe as well? The back of the dishes say “Contemporary Château hand painted stoneware” and made in Japan. They were their everyday dishes and sentimental, but I don’t want to use them with my family if they are unsafe.
Hi Tamara, I have the old brook collection stoneware plates in the Stone Creek pattern. They have a brown rum with yellow, white and orange flowers with sage green leaves. I’m hoping that this one is also safe?
Thank you so much!,
Lori
Brown rim* I meant