Glossary

Blanc-de-chine is a French term generally used to refer to undecorated ivory white porcelain pieces made for export by the Dehua  kilns in the Fujian province, during the 17th-18th centuries.…

Information and gallery of bone china. Bone china is a type of soft-paste porcelain that is composed of bone ash, feldspathic material, and kaolin. It has been defined as ware…

Information and gallery of earthenware. Earthenware, pottery that has not been fired to the point of vitrification and is thus slightly porous and coarser than stoneware and porcelain. The body can…

Faience. The term faience broadly encompassed finely glazed ceramic beads, figures and other small objects found in Egypt as early as 4000 BC, as well as in the Ancient Near…

Flambe Glaze / Sang de boeuf. Flambe glaze also called Sang de boeuf, (French: “oxblood”) , a glossy, rich, blood-red glaze often slashed with streaks of purple or turquoise used…

Hard-paste porcelain is a ceramic material that was originally made from a compound of the feldspathic rock petuntse and kaolin fired at very high temperature, usually around 1400 °C. It…

Porcelain is a vitrified pottery with a white, fine-grained body that is usually translucent, as distinguished from earthenware, which is porous, opaque, and coarser. The distinction between porcelain and stoneware,…

Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up pottery wares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made by a potter is…