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Sevres Ware :: Sevres ware () Porcelain manufactured at Sevres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there..

Uranium :: Uranium (n.) An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239..

Casserole :: Casserole (n.) A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain..

Cachepot :: Cachepot (n.) An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc..

Glazing :: Glazing (n.) The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper..

Porcelanite :: Porcelanite (n.) A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper..

Crackle :: Crackle (n.) A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle..

Porcelainized :: Porcelainized (a.) Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

Plate :: Plate (n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light..

Vase :: Vase (n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland..

Depolishing :: Depolishing (n.) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain..

Borax :: Borax (n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O..

Porcelain :: Porcelain (n.) A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware..

Diaphanous :: Diaphanous (a.) Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear..

China :: China (n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain..

Crackled :: Crackled (a.) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

Parian :: Parian (n.) A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc..

Transparency :: Transparency (n.) That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it..

Chipping :: Chipping (n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc..

Lithophane :: Lithophane (n.) Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade..

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