White goods
White goods White goods – a technical term of the porcelain industry This page is still under construction (wv-kh) The porcelain maker describes as white ware the finished fired body, i.e. the completely manufactured article made of porcelain without any kind of decoration or refinement. In the German porcelain industry, the majority of white ware already…
Soft-Paste Porcelain
Soft-Paste Porcelain Soft Porcelain – the Technically Correct Definition (Picture copyright: Wikipedia) In the group of porcelain and ceramics, the term soft porcelain (soft-paste porcelain) can be found alongside hard porcelain. The origin of the word lies in French as “Pate Tendre”. Countries of origin of soft porcelain are China and Japan. Through colonial rule of the British…
Vitreous
Vitreous Vitreous Porcelain – a Ceramic From the Stoneware Family This page is still under construction (wv-kh) The explanation of the ceramic type of “Vitreous” requires the full name to be given: Vitreous China. As we explain in detail on our page “Chinaware”, the word “Chinaware” does not stand for “porcelain”, but rather for…
Terracotta
Terracotta Terracotta – probably the oldest kind of ceramics The name terracotta comes from Latin and is composed of the words terra (earth) and coquere (to boil) and means “boiled earth” or “fired earth”. Essentially, terracotta consists of clay as a shaping component and a small amount of feldspar to bind the mass. Unlike porcelain,…
Earthenware
Earthenware This page is still under construction (wv-kh) Stoneware naturally belongs – like porcelain – to the large group of ceramics. Experts refer to this “highly fired” variant as fine ceramics. Tableware made of stoneware can be recognized mainly by its white-yellowish or greyish colour of the body. Although the body is sintered and densely…
Crockery
Crockery This page is still under construction (wv-kh) Crockery – one of the Oldest Ceramic Types Crockery – like stoneware and porcelain – is of course also part of the large group of ceramics. The layman can easily confuse crockery with porcelain in a pure colour comparison, because its body colour is very similar to…
Well
Well The porcelain maker refers to the inner surface of a flat part surrounded by a rim as a “well”. In contrast to rim plates, however, the inner surface of coup forms is not called a well. The base ring of a saucer is also called a “well”, i.e. it describes the surface area for…
Body
Body In the technical language of porcelain and ceramics production, the term „body” refers to a shaped, dried or fired ceramic object which has not yet been glazed. The body is thus the final result of the composition of raw materials and firing by sintering. Most ceramic tableware and also porcelain in its finished state consists…
Relief harnesses
Relief harnesses Relief – the embossing of porcelain and ceramic dishes A very common type of decoration of tableware can be found – in addition to decorative porcelain – as relief tableware. The English translation “embossed” (embossed, pressed) describes the manufacturing method of this shape in a more understandable way. The visible motif on the top of the item…
Porcelain
Porcelain Porcelain – The definition from the product knowledge of Holst Porzellan Poetic definition of porcelain This page is still under construction (wv-kh) Created from sand, stones and earthen materials, shaped and shrunk and fired in the fire, the “white gold” is created. Hardly any other material offers so many different qualities under one name…