Ceramic Plate Terminology

When purchasing ceramic pieces it is important to consider the type of glaze in terms of food safety durability and fit with the underlying claybody.

Ceramic plate terminology.

Stoneware all ceramic wear fired between 2 100 and 2 300 degrees. Most are stable up to cone 5 many to cone 10. Are lines marked around circular ceramic utensils plates jars or lids using any method of decoration which can be applied at all stages of manufacture. Vitrification the firing of pottery to the point of glossification.

Throwing creating ceramic shapes on the potter s wheel. See also claybody glaze fit high temp glaze intermediate glaze low temp glaze. This is a list of pottery and ceramic terms. Used in kilns to indicate accurate firing temperatures and heat work.

Or batt less commonly also known as a batterboard thin slab of wood plaster or. Ceramic colorants that have been fritted in order to eliminate solubility problems and give greater stability in firing and truer color before firing. Small tall pyramids made from various ceramic materials which fuse and bend over at given temperatures. Can be mixed with 25 50 ferro 3134 frit for maiolica overglaze decoration.

Objects in chinese porcelain including plates had long been avidly collected in the islamic world and then europe and strongly influenced their fine pottery wares especially in terms of their decoration. Banding is the action of marking a band. A method of cooling molten frit by allowing it to pour into a bath of water thereby giving the frit its characteristic granular or plate form.