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

Petuntze :: Petuntze (n.) Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain..

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..

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..

Kaoline :: Kaoline (n.) A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar..

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..

Bisque :: Bisque (n.) Unglazed white porcelain.

Biscuit :: Biscuit (n.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature..

Porcellaneous :: Porcellaneous (a.) Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells..

Biscuit :: Biscuit (n.) Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing..

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..

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

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..

Cassius :: Cassius (n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius..

Celadon :: Celadon (n.) A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint..

Setter :: Setter (n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.

Smooth :: Smooth (superl.) Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain..

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

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..

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