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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..

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

Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc..

Pottery :: Pottery (n.) The place where earthen vessels are made.

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

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..

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

Figuline :: Figuline (n.) A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects.

Sigillated :: Sigillated (a.) Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

Smeir :: Smeir (n.) A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze..

Fictile :: Fictile (a.) Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material..

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

Glaze :: Glaze (n.) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3..

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..

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

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

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..

Cup :: Cup (n.) A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like..

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery..

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

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