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  2. Glaze defects - Wikipedia

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    Crazing is a spider web pattern of cracks penetrating the glaze. It is caused by tensile stresses greater than the glaze is able to withstand. [1] [2] Common reasons for such stresses are: a mismatch between the thermal expansions of glaze and body; from moisture expansion of the body; and in the case of glazed tiles fixed to a wall, movement of the wall or of the bonding material used to fix ...

  3. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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    Pottery that has been fired but not yet glazed. Occasionally also bisque.( Bisque porcelain Unglazed porcelain as a final product, with a matt surface resembling marble. Biscuit firing The first firing prior to glazing and subsequent additional firing. Bloating The permanent swelling of a ceramic article during firing caused by the evolution of ...

  4. Slipware - Wikipedia

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    Often only pottery where the slip creates patterns or images will be described as slipware, as opposed to the many types where a plain slip is applied to the whole body, for example most fine wares in Ancient Roman pottery, such as African red slip ware (note: "slip ware" not "slipware"). Decorative slips may be a different colour than the ...

  5. Tessera - Wikipedia

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    These are the cheapest range of bought materials and can be glazed or unglazed. The glazed ceramic tiles have the color painted onto the top of the clay and then fired to a high temperature in a kiln. The unglazed or body glazed version has the color mixed into the wet clay so the color runs through them. They vary in size. [2]

  6. Slip (ceramics) - Wikipedia

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    African red slip ware: moulded Mithras slaying the bull, 400 ± 50 AD.. A slip is a clay slurry used to produce pottery and other ceramic wares. [1] Liquified clay, in which there is no fixed ratio of water and clay, is called slip or clay slurry which is used either for joining leather-hard (semi-hardened) clay body (pieces of pottery) together by slipcasting with mould, glazing or decorating ...

  7. Faience - Wikipedia

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    Modern bowl in a traditional pattern, made in Faenza, Italy, which gave its name to the type Sophisticated Rococo Niderviller faience, by a French factory that also made porcelain, 1760–65. Faience or faïence (/ f aɪ ˈ ɑː n s, f eɪ ˈ-,-ˈ ɒ̃ s /; French: ⓘ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery.

  8. Ceramic glaze - Wikipedia

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    Glazed brick goes back to the Elamite Temple at Chogha Zanbil, dated to the 13th century BC. The Iron Pagoda, built in 1049 in Kaifeng, China, of glazed bricks is a well-known later example. [4] Lead glazed earthenware was probably made in China during the Warring States period (475 – 221 BC), and its production increased during the Han dynasty.

  9. Porcelain tile - Wikipedia

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    Hand-painted Chinese porcelain tiles on the floor of a Jewish synagogue in Cochin, Kerala, India. Porcelain tiles or ceramic tiles are either tiles made of porcelain, or relatively tough ceramic tiles made with a variety of materials and methods, that are suitable for use as floor tiles, or for walls. They have a low water absorption rate ...

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