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2. 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.

3. 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 ]

4. 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.

5. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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   In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware. The wheel may also be used during the process of trimming excess clay from leather-hard dried ware that is stiff but malleable, and for applying incised decoration or rings of colour.

6. Earthenware - Wikipedia

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   One of the life-size Yixian glazed pottery luohans. Modern earthenware may be biscuit (or "bisque") [13] [14] fired to temperatures between 1,000 and 1,150 °C (1,830 and 2,100 °F) and glost-fired [15] (or "glaze-fired") [4] [16] to between 950 and 1,050 °C (1,740 and 1,920 °F). Some studio potters follow the reverse practice, with a low ...

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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 ...

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