histories

Information on the histories of UK potters and pottery manufacturers  from 1900 to the present day

Copyright © Michael Perry 2010

Ceramic materials

Antimony, Ball clay, Bone ash, China clay, China stone, Cornish stone, Clay, Encaustic, Feldspar, Fireclay, Flux, Frit, Grog, Iron red, Kaolin, Lead glaze, Manganese, Mazarine blue, Paste, Petuntse, Pipe clay, Slag, Slip, Smalt, Tin glaze.

Pottery processes

Bat printing, Calcine, Casting, Encaustic, Glost firing, Hand-thrown, Incise, Jiggering, Reduction firing, Slip casting, Turned, Vitrification.

Bodies

Body, Biscuit, Bisque, Bone china, China, Dry body (stoneware), Earthenware , Felspar porcelain , Felspathic Earthenware, Fine stoneware , Hard-paste porcelain, Ironstone china, Porcelain, Porcellaneous, Pottery, Soapstone porcelain, Soft-paste porcelain, Stone china, Stoneware, Terracotta, Vitreous stoneware.

Categories
of ware

Agate Ware, Bamboo Ware, Basaltes, Bellarmine, Black porcelain, Blanc de chine, Caneware, Castleford ware, Egyptian black , Commemorative ware, Creamware, Delftware , Faience, Flat Ware, Flint ware , Galleyware , Gaudy Welsh, Hollow Ware, Imari Ware, Ivory porcelain, Jackfield, Japanese export ware, Jasper dip , Jasper ware , Jet, Lace Ware, Lava ware, Lustre ware , Majolica (Maiolica), Nanking Ware (Nankeen Ware), Nautilus Ware, Nottingham stoneware, Parian, Pearlware , Piecrust ware, Pratt Ware, Queen's Ware, Red stoneware, Rosso antico, Salt glazed stoneware, Slipware, Solid jasper, Toby jug, Tortoiseshell ware, Wall pocket, Waster, Welsh ware , Wemyss Ware, Whieldon ware, Whimsey, White ware, Yellow Ware

Decorative
terms

Acanthus leaf, Blue and White Ware, Blue dash, Chasing, Clobbering , Crazing, Diaper, Enamel , Famille rose, Famille verte, Flow Blue, Fluted , Foot-rim , Gadroon, Gilding, Ground, Glaze, Gloss,  Honey gilding , Incised, Japanning, Kakiemon , Mercury gilding , Oil gilding , Palette (Colour palette), Pinhole, Relief moulding, Rocaille, Rococo, Scratch blue, Sgraffito, Spanish Work, Sprigging, Transfer-printing

Miscellaneous

Coupe shape, Fake, Forgery, Finial, Fluted, Foot-rim, Liberty & Co., Sparrow-beak, Tazza, Toby jug, Toilet set, Vienna Secession, Wiener Werkstatte

Glossary

noun (plural glossaries)

an alphabetical list of words relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary

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