China Porcelain

 Chinese Ceramics :Pottery, porcelain and ceramics are three easily confused terms to describe the earthenware production in China. 

Pottery can be any object made from porous clay and baked at a temperature ranging from hot, direct sunlight to baking, or firing, in a kiln at a

temperature of about 1,000 degrees Celsius. It is usually neither hard nor stable. In order to produce ideal results, before firing, pigments or colors

were supposed to be applied to pottery. After firing, it can also be painted with almost any colors.

Porcelain, on the other hand, is made from a mixture of special clays, often kaolin, which is made from decomposed crystals of granite, and fired at

a very high temperature of 1,350 degree Celsius, at which kaolin becomes white. It is hard and much more durable than pottery. After firing,

porcelain can be painted in a rainbow of colors and glazed, and then fired at a low temperature to seal the color and harden the glaze. Even the

word “china” is often used to describe fine Chinese porcelain.