earthenware, form of pottery pottery, the baked-clay wares of the entire ceramics field. For a description of the nature of the material, see clay .
It usually falls into three main classes—porous-bodied pottery, stoneware , and porcelain .
..... Click the link for more information. fired at relatively low temperatures, so that the clay does not vitrify (become glassy), as do stoneware and porcelain clays. Occasionally, earthenware is used as a general term for all kinds of pottery.
Pottery that has been fired at low heat and is slightly more porous and coarser than stoneware and porcelain. For practical and decorative purposes, it is usually glazed. The earliest known pottery, a soft earthenware excavated at a Neolithic settlement in Turkey, is thought to be about 9,000 years old. Earthenware is still widely used for cooking, freezing, and serving. See also creamware.
earthenware
earthenware [′ər·thən‚wer]
Types of Pottery
It usually falls into three main classes—porous-bodied pottery, stoneware , and porcelain .
..... Click the link for more information. fired at relatively low temperatures, so that the clay does not vitrify (become glassy), as do stoneware and porcelain clays. Occasionally, earthenware is used as a general term for all kinds of pottery.
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Lead-glazed earthenware water pot, Paris, 15th century, in the National Museum of Ceramics, …
(credit: Courtesy of (top, bottom) the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, (centre) the Musee National de la Ceramique, Sevres)
earthenware
vessels, etc., made of baked clay
earthenware [′ər·thən‚wer]
(engineering)
Ceramic products of natural clay, fired at 1742-2129°F (950-1165°C), that is slightly porous, opaque, and usually covered with a nonporous glaze.
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