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  2. Vitreous enamel - Wikipedia

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    Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C (1,380 and 1,560 °F). The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating. The word vitreous comes from the Latin vitreus, meaning "glassy".

  3. List of porcelain manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Plymouth Porcelain. Rockingham Pottery. Royal Crown Derby, (1750/57–present) Royal Doulton, (1815–2009 acquired by Fiskars) Royal Worcester, (1751–2008 acquired by Portmeirion Pottery) Spode, (1767–2008 acquired by Portmeirion Pottery) Saint James's Factory (or "Girl-in-a-Swing", 1750s) Swansea porcelain. Vauxhall porcelain.

  4. Porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Porcelain (/ ˈpɔːrs (ə) lɪn /) is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 and 1,400 °C (2,200 and 2,600 °F). The greater strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arise mainly from vitrification and the formation of the ...

  5. Bone china - Wikipedia

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    Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery, [1] the raw materials for which include bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. It has been defined as "ware with a translucent body" containing a minimum of 30% of phosphate derived from calcined animal bone or calcium phosphate. [2] Bone china is amongst the strongest of whiteware ...

  6. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Geometric art in Greek pottery was contiguous with the late Dark Age and early Archaic Greece, which saw the rise of the Orientalizing period. The pottery produced in Archaic and Classical Greece included at first black-figure pottery, yet other styles emerged such as red-figure pottery and the white ground technique.

  7. Satsuma ware - Wikipedia

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    Satsuma ware. Satsuma earthenware tea storage jar (chatsubo) with paulownia and thunder pattern, late Edo period, circa 1800–1850. Satsuma ware (薩摩焼, Satsuma-yaki) is a type of Japanese pottery originally from Satsuma Province, southern Kyūshū. Today, it can be divided into two distinct categories: the original plain dark clay early ...

  8. Porcelain manufacturing companies in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The manufacture began to produce porcelain only in 1800 [1] 1770: Rörstrand: Stockholm: Sweden: The company was established in 1726; however, it began to produce porcelain wares only in the 1770s 1771: Limoges porcelain: Limoges: France: Limoges maintains the position it established in the 19th century as the premier manufacturing city of ...

  9. Conservation and restoration of ceramic objects - Wikipedia

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    This object is from the collection of the Indiana State Museum. Conservation and restoration of ceramic objects is a process dedicated to the preservation and protection of objects of historical and personal value made from ceramic. Typically, this activity of conservation-restoration is undertaken by a conservator-restorer, especially when ...

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