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  2. Biscuit (pottery) - Wikipedia

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    The porous nature of (fired) biscuit earthenware means that it readily absorbs water, while vitreous wares such as porcelain, bone china and most stoneware are non-porous even without glazing. [6] The temperature of biscuit firing is today usually at least 1000°C, although higher temperatures are common. [ 7 ]

  3. Biscuit porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Biscuit porcelain, bisque porcelain or bisque is unglazed, white porcelain treated as a final product, [1] [2] with a matte appearance and texture to the touch. It has been widely used in European pottery , mainly for sculptural and decorative objects that are not tableware and so do not need a glaze for protection.

  4. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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    Similar pottery is known in France as Faience and in UK and Netherlands as Deftware. Majolica ( W ) or maiolica Earthenware developed in France and England, which is made by applying temperature compatible coloured lead glazes simultaneously to the biscuit body, then firing.

  5. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay ... A glaze may be applied to the biscuit ware and the object can be decorated ...

  6. Parian ware - Wikipedia

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    Parian "Nelson Jug" (1851) Parian ware is a type of biscuit porcelain imitating marble.It was developed around 1845 by the Staffordshire pottery manufacturer Mintons, and named after Paros, the Greek island renowned for its fine-textured, white Parian marble, used since antiquity for sculpture.

  7. Rio Grande White Ware - Wikipedia

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    Biscuit A bowl. The Rio Grande white wares comprise multiple pottery traditions of the prehistoric Puebloan peoples of New Mexico. About AD 750, the beginning of the Pueblo I Era, after adhering to a different and widespread regional ceramic tradition (the Cibola White Ware tradition) for generations, potters of the Rio Grande region of New Mexico began developing distinctly local varieties of ...

  8. Biscuit (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Biscuit (pottery) (or "bisque"), partly-made pottery that has been fired but not yet glazed Biscuit porcelain, unglazed porcelain as a finished product; Behavioral Science Consultation Teams (BSCT, pronounced "biscuit"), groups of psychiatrists, other medical doctors, and psychologists who study detainees in American extrajudicial detention

  9. Manufacture nationale de Sèvres - Wikipedia

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    Only this wood can bring the oven to the high temperatures required (800 °C in the small fires, nearly 1300 °C in the main one). The logs of wood are 73 cm long. The oven can fire biscuit porcelain in 15–16 hours and glass or glazed porcelain in 11–12 hours. One firing requires 25 cubic metres of wood, which is burnt over 48 hours using a ...