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2. Biscuit (pottery) - Wikipedia

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   A bisque porcelain bust. Biscuit [1] [2] [3] [4] (also known as bisque) refers to any pottery that has been fired in a kiln without a ceramic glaze.This can be a ...

3. Ceramic glaze - Wikipedia

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   Composite body, painted, and glazed bottle. Iran, 16th century (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Detail of dripping rice-straw ash glaze (top), Japan, 1852. Ceramic glaze, or simply glaze, is a glassy coating on ceramics. It is used for decoration, to ensure the item is impermeable to liquids and to minimise the adherence of pollutants. [1]

4. Pottery - Wikipedia

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   10. Textured Glaze - Designed to create raised or recessed textures. - Adds visual and tactile interest to pottery. 11. Raku Glaze - Specifically designed for raku firing, where pottery is removed from the kiln while still hot. - Produces crackled textures and unique, unpredictable patterns. - Often used for artistic or decorative purposes. 12.

5. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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   Glazing pottery by the application of a glaze suspension via a compressed air gun, similar to that for applying paint to cars. Also called aerographing. Stilt small supports used to prevent glazes from fusing the pot to the kiln during firing. Stoneware A vitreous or semivitreous whiteware. Traditionally made primarily from nonrefractory fire ...

6. Catawba Valley Pottery - Wikipedia

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   The alkaline glazed ware was initially fired in what are known as "groundhog kilns". These kilns were a unique southern U.S. variation of climbing kilns built into hillsides, such as the Asian anagama. Semi-subterranean in construction, the groundhog kiln featured a door leading into a long, low passage of brick or rock construction, with a ...

7. Ash glaze - Wikipedia

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   One of the ceramic fluxes in ash glazes is calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as quicklime, and most ash glazes are part of the lime glaze family, not all of which use ash. In some ash glazes extra lime was added to the ash, which may have been the case with Chinese Yue ware . [ 4 ]

8. 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 ...

9. Underglaze - Wikipedia

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   Underglaze is a method of decorating pottery in which painted decoration is applied to the surface before it is covered with a transparent ceramic glaze and fired in a kiln. Because the glaze subsequently covers it, such decoration is completely durable, and it also allows the production of pottery with a surface that has a uniform sheen ...