Material Name: ceramic
Description
Molded or shaped items made from clay then fired to form a hard, vitrified material. Porcelain, a fine-grain, high-fired ceramic, was developed in China about the 7th century CE. Porcelain, or hard paste, becomes hard, translucent and resonant when fired. In an attempt to imitate porcelain in the 18th century, Josih Spode developed bone china.


Synonyms and Related Terms
ceramics (pl.); keramiek (Ned.); céramique (Fr.); Keramik (Deut.); ceramica (It.); cerámica (Esp.); cerâmica (Port.); keramik (Sven.);
Examples include: bone china; porcelain; hard paste; soft paste


Images
3 total images



Krater
Vase
Early Aegean, Helladic
Bronze Age, Late Helladic III A:2-II B Period, about 1350-1250 B.C.
Cyprus
Ceramic
Height: 43.6 cm (17 3/16 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Henry Lillie Pierce Fund 01.8044

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Squat pitcher
Pitcher; Barbotine
Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Middle Minoan I Period, 2000-1800 B.C.
Greece, Crete
Ceramic
17.6 cm (6 15/16 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund 1971.632

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MFA Online Collections Database
 
Contemporary commercial ceramic cup

Image credit: http://www.sweetmarias.com/filtercone.ceramic.jpg
(Accessed April 15, 2004)
 

Authority

10 total authority records

Materials Handbook, G.S. Brady, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971

comments: p. 291

Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 10th ed., Richard S. Lewis, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1993

Robert Fournier, Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Pottery, Chilton Book Company, Radnor, PA, 1992

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia, Douglas M. Considine (ed.), Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1976

Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Random House, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

Ward Bucher (ed.), Dictionary of Building Preservation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

Tom Rowland, Noel Riley, A-Z Guide to Cleaning, Conserving and Repairing Antiques, Constable and Co., Ltd., London, 1981

Website address 1

comments: Multilingual Glossary for Art Librarians at http://www.ifla.org/VII/s30/pub/mgl.htm

Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000

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