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Old Tupton Ware and UK Pottery

There is a long history of ceramic art in the united kingdom, and often ceramic objects are all the artistic evidence left from vanished cultures, like that of the Nok in Africa over 2,000 years ago. Cultures especially noted for ceramics include the Chinese, Cretan, Greek, Persian, Mayan, Japanese, and Korean cultures, as well as the modern Western cultures. Most traditional ceramic products were made from clay (or clay mixed with other materials), shaped and subjected to heat, and tableware and decorative ceramics are generally still made this way.

Modern Cermaic Pottery

In modern ceramic engineering usage, ceramics is the art and science of making objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials by the action of heat. Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts.

While some ceramics are considered fine art, like Old Tupton Ware, as pottery or sculpture, most are considered to be decorative, applied or industrial art objects. Ceramics may also be considered artefacts in archaeology. Ceramic art can be made by one person or by a group of people. In a pottery or ceramic factory, a group of people design, manufacture and decorate the art ware. Products from a pottery are sometimes referred to as "art pottery".

 

In a one-person pottery studio, ceramists or potters produce studio pottery. Different types of clay, Stoneware Stoneware is fired at high temperatures. One widely recognised definition is from the Combined Nomenclature of the European Communities, a European industry standard states "Stoneware, which, though dense, hard and impermeable enough to resist scratching by a steel point, differs from porcelain because it is more opaque, and normally only partially vitrified. It is usually coloured brownish or grey because of impurities in the clay used for its manufacture, and is normally glazed." Earthenware Many types of pottery have been made from it from the earliest times, and until the 18th century it was the most common type of pottery outside the far East. Terracotta, a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic, where the fired body is porous. Terracotta has been a common medium for ceramic art. Bone china ( fine china) is a type of soft-paste porcelain that is composed of bone ash, feldspathic material, and kaolin.

 

Most major English firms made or still make it, including Mintons, Coalport, Spode, Royal Crown Derby, Royal Doulton, Wedgwood and Worcester. In the UK, references to "china" or "porcelain" can refer to bone china, and "English porcelain" has been used as a term for it, both in the UK and around the world. Porcelain The pottery is a ceramic material made by heating materials, generally including kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 and 1,400 ° C (2,200 and 2,600 ° F). The toughness, strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arises mainly from vitrification and the formation of the mineral mullite within the body at these high temperatures.

 

Properties associated with porcelain include low permeability and elasticity; considerable strength, hardness, toughness, translucency, whiteness and resonance; and a high resistance to chemical attack and thermal shock. Porcelain has been described as being "completely vitrified, hard, impermeable (even before glazing), white or artificially coloured, translucent (except when of considerable thickness), and resonant". However, the term porcelain has and lacks a universal definition "been applied in a very unsystematic fashion to substances of diverse kinds which have only certain surface-qualities in common".

 

Elements of ceramic art, upon which different degrees of emphasis have been placed at different times, are the shape of the object, its decoration by painting, carving and other methods, and the glazing found on most ceramics. Most traditional ceramic products were made from clay (or clay mixed with other materials), shaped and subjected to heat, and tableware and decorative ceramics are generally still made this way. In modern ceramic engineering usage, ceramics is the art and science of making objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials by the action of heat. Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. While some ceramics are considered fine art, as pottery or sculpture, most are considered to be decorative, applied or industrial art objects.

 

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