agateware
Pottery decorated with a combination of contrastingly coloured clays, designed to resemble the layers of colour in an agate stone.
Industrial ceramics
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Albany slip
A glazing mixture made from a clay peculiar to the Upper Hudson Region of New York, used in some American stoneware pottery.
bejmat
A traditional Moroccan hand-molded clay tile, typically unglazed and rectangular, used for flooring and outdoor paving.
biscuit firing
The initial firing to which pottery is subjected, before it is glazed.
bisque
A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
blunger
The apparatus used for blunging (mixing clay with water to make pottery).
cassette
A saggar (ceramic container used in a kiln).
crackle
A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
craze
A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
creamware
Cream-coloured earthenware produced chiefly from 1750 to 1820 by the potters of Staffordshire, England
Dresdenware
A kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Germany.
earthenware
An opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds.
fat lava
A style of gaudy, vibrant, pottery decoration, common in West Germany from the 1950s to the 1970s.
fettle
A seam line left by the meeting of mould pieces.
fired
adjectiveIndustrial ceramics
Heated in a furnace, kiln, etc., to become permanently hardened.
firing
The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
footrim
The usually circular ring at the base of a ceramic vessel that supports it on a surface and may display markings of provenance.
glaze
The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
greenbody
A ceramic precursor, usually mesostructured with dopants, which has been formed but not yet milled or fired.
greenware
Pottery that has been shaped but not yet fired, especially while it is drying prior to being fireable.
grog
A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
groundlaying
The first process in decorating by means of enamelled colour.
Iznikware
A kind of pottery from the town of İznik in western Anatolia, produced from the last quarter of the 15th century until the end of the 17th century.
jasperware
A form of pottery that has a stoneware body which is either white or colored, which is noted for its matte finish. It is a popular blue-and-white ware, but it comes in many other colors.
kick wheel
A wheel or disc used to throw pots, turned by kicking or pushing a heavy stone or concrete base with the foot.
light clay
Straw-clay, a mixture of straw with a dressing of dilute liquid clay or clay slip. This natural material, making use of an agricultural by-product with an abundant component of soil, has good insulating qualities but is not suitable for load-bearing structural elements.
menqach
A specialized, heavy, dual-headed hammer or chisel used by Moroccan artisans (Maâlems) in Fez to hand-cut and bevel the edges of zellige tiles.
overfire
To fire at a high (or excessively high) temperature.
paper clay
Clay mixed with shredded paper or other fibres, valued for its strength and light weight in the production of large ceramic works.
potiche
A vase with a separate cover, the body usually rounded or polygonal in plan with nearly vertical sides, a neck of smaller size, and a rounded shoulder.
prunus
A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
Raku
A style of Japanese pottery, considered the traditional style for the pottery used in the Japanese tea ceremony; (especially capitalized) such pottery made by the Raku family.
reserve
That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
rope
A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
soak
To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
sun pan
A vat used for drying slip (a thin, slippery mix of clay and water), sometimes with artificial heat.
trial
An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
underfiring
The state of being insufficiently fired or underfired.
Wedgwood
The ceramic ware with white embossed cameos made by Josiah Wedgwood, English potter.
Yue
Yue ware, a southern Chinese style of celadon-glazed stoneware.