vitrified pottery with a white, fine-grained body that is usually translucent, as distinguished from earthenware, which is porous, opaque, and coarser. The distinction between porcelain and stoneware, the other class of vitrified pottery material, is...

Vitrified pottery with a white, fine-grained body that is usually translucent. It was first made in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907) and in its advanced form during the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). The three main types are true (or...

Either of two types of soft-paste porcelain produced from &circa; 1725 to &circa; 1800 at Chantilly, France. In the first type, made until &circa; 1750, an opaque, milk-white tin glaze was applied to a yellowish ground; the designs were simplified...

c. 608-c. 676 Semi-legendary Chinese inventor of porcelain. It is said that Tao Yue was born near the Yangtze River, whose "white clay" (kaolin) he added to other varieties of clay in order to develop porcelain. In the Chinese capital at...

Glazed pottery ware, often of fine quality, manufactured from CHINA...

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating refined materials, often including clay in the form of kaolinite, to high temperatures in a kiln at temperatures between 1,200 °C (2,192 °F) and 1,400 °C (2,552 °F). The toughness,...