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Ectype :: Ectype (n.) A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence:.

Wedgwood Ware :: Wedgwood ware () A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels..

Lustering :: Lustering (n.) The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery..

Scroddled Ware :: Scroddled ware () Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.

Refractory :: Refractory (n.) OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles..

Frit :: Frit (v. t.) The material for glaze of pottery.

Craze :: Craze (v. i.) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery..

Barbotine :: Barbotine (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

Firing :: Firing (n.) The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.

Majolica :: Majolica (n.) A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century..

Ceramics :: Ceramics (n.) The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc..

Glost Oven :: Glost oven () An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze..

Nonesuch :: Nonesuch (n.) A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc..

Pug :: Pug (v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc..

Glazer :: Glazer (n.) One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like..

Palissy :: Palissy (a.) Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry..

Basalt :: Basalt (n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain..

Zaffer :: Zaffer (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc..

Delftware :: Delftware (n.) Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence.

Stillness :: Stillion (n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying..

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