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Chinese porcelain culture Lead-in Porcelain, also called fine china, featuring its delicate texture, pleasing color, and refined sculpture, has been one of the earliest artworks introduced to the western world through the Silk Road. Chinese ceramics 陶瓷 consists of two types, pottery and porcelain/china. Questions to consider What is porcelain made of? What is the difference between pottery and porcelain? Coarse vs. fine/delicate Glassy and slippery quality Why are they so different? Defining Pottery and Porcelain by Firing Temperature Temp. Degrees Celsius Product 700 - 950 Pottery 900 - 1250 Celadon 青瓷,灰绿色 1200 - 1450 China-ware 1450 + PorcelainQuestion to consider How to make a porcelain? How many procedures to go through? Forming Glazing Decoration Firing Method: Forming The potter first needs to shape pottery on a potters wheel. But it is not an easy job because the material used to making porcelain is in low plasticity. So it is difficult to shape the clay. In the case of throwing on a potter’s wheel 陶轮 it can be seen as pulling clay upwards and outwards into a required shape. The process of throwing is in fact one of remarkable complexity. Glazing Unlike their lower-fired counterparts, porcelain wares do not need glazing to render them impermeable to liquids and for the most part are glazed for decorative purposes and to make them resistant to dirt and staining. Decoration Porcelain wares may be decorated under the glaze using pigments that include cobalt 钴做的深蓝色 and copper or over the glaze using colored enamels 珐琅,瓷釉 . Like many earlier wares, modern porcelains are often fired at around 1000 degrees Celsius, coated with glaze and then sent for a second glaze and firing at a temperature of about 1300 degrees Celsius or greater. Firing In this process, green unfired ceramic wares are heated to high temperatures in a kiln to permanently set their shapes. Porcelain is fired at a higher temperature than earthenware so that the body can v