![Salt-glazed stoneware <i>Bartmannkrug</i> with applied relief decoration, Cologne, <i>c.</i> 1540; &elipsis; [Credit: Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photograph, Wilfrid Walter—EB Inc.]](http://images.bookrags.com/images/eb/26102.gif)
Salt-glazed stoneware Bartmannkrug with applied relief decoration, Cologne, c. 1540; &elipsis; [Credit: Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photograph, Wilfrid Walter—EB Inc.] fired at a high temperature (about 2,200 °F, or 1,200 °C) until vitrified (made glasslike and impervious to liquid). Because stoneware is nonporous, glaze is applied only for decoration.
Stoneware originated in China &circa; 1400 &BC; and was exported to Europe in the 17th century. This red to dark-brown stoneware was copied in Germany, England, and the Netherlands. &Seealso; bone china, porcelain.
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