Pottery

thumb|300x300px|Hand building a jar Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where a potter makes such wares is also called a pottery (plural potteries). The definition of pottery, used by the ASTM International, is "all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products". End applications include tableware, decorative ware, sanitary ware, and in technology and industry such as electrica

thumb|Chinese Ru ware celadon-glazed bottle vase, [[Northern Song, 11th–12th century]]

thumb|International Gothic Bohemian bust of the [[Virgin Mary; –1395; terracotta with polychromy; 32.5× 22.4× 13.8cm]]

material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing

thumb|upright=1.3|Formal dining table laid for a large private dinner party at Chatsworth House thumb|upright=1.3|Table laid for six at the Royal Castle, Warsaw, (18th–19th century fashion)

thumb|right|Modern bowl in a traditional pattern, made in Faenza, Italy, which gave its name to the type thumb|Sophisticated Rococo [[Niderviller faience, by a French factory that also made porcelain, 1760–65]]

layer or coating of vitreous substance fused to a ceramic object

[[Image:AGMA Ostrakon Cimon.jpg|right|thumb|Ostrakon inscribed with "Kimon [son] of Miltiades", for Cimon, an Athenian statesman.]] thumb|Ostrakon of Megacles, son of Hippocrates (inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚΛΕΣ ΗΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΟΣ), 487 BC. On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the [[Stoa of Attalus]] right|thumb|Ancient Greek ostraca voting for the ostracism|ostracization of [[Themistocles in 472/471 BC.]]

machine used in the shaping of round ceramic ware

thumb|Jian ware tea bowl with "hare's fur" glaze, southern [[Song dynasty, 12th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art (see below)]]

Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery that has normally been fired below . Basic earthenware, often called terracotta, absorbs liquids such as water. However, earthenware can be made impervious to liquids by coating it with a ceramic glaze, and such a process is used for the great majority of modern domestic earthenware. The main other important types of pottery are porcelain, bone china, and stoneware, all fired at high enough temperatures to vitrify. End applications include tableware and decorative ware such as figurines.

300px|thumb|upright=1.4|Craquelure in the Mona Lisa, with a typical "Italian" pattern of small rectangular blocks thumb|Age craquelure in pottery

type of decorated ceramic

furnace in which the subject material is isolated from the fuel and products of combustion

art objects made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery

thumb|Fire & Ice H. Grobe (1975) – Example of a painting made with the decalcomania technique Decalcomania (from ) is a decorative technique by which engravings and prints may be transferred to pottery or other materials.

porcelain composed of bone ash, feldspathic material, and kaolin

type of Ancient Egyptian sintered-quartz ceramic

liquid mixture or slurry of clay and/or other materials suspended in water

pottery of Islamic lands

thumb|400px|Chinese porcelain dish (left), 9th century, excavated in [[Iran, and a fritware dish made in Iran (right), 12th century (British Museum)]] thumb|Blue and white bowl with radial design, 13th century, Iran (Brooklyn Museum) thumb|right|Dish with cypress tree decoration, 1570–1575, İznik pottery|İznik ([[Calouste Gulbenkian Museum)]] Fritware, also known as stone-paste, is a type of pottery in which ground glass (frit) is added to clay to reduce its fusion temperature. The mixture may include quartz or other siliceous material. An organic compound such as gum or glue may be added for

pyramidal ceramic specimen whose softening deformation is proportional to the temperature reached in the kiln

Porcelain material consisting of clay and other materials

forming technique in pottery

method of making pottery

traditional Latvian pottery

kaolinitic sedimentary clay

thumb|Cavetto moulding thumb| Illustrations of various examples of ancient Egyptian cornices, all of them having cavettos

thumbnail|250px|Saggars in use in the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres thumb|250px|upright|Bungs of saggars inside a bottle kiln

type of jug

applied subdiscipline of chemistry

Pottery produced by the indigenous people of the Americas

prehistoric archaeological culture of north-western Iran