Glossary C
Deutsch: China / Español: China / Português: China / Français: Chine / Italiano: Cina /
China is characterized as 1) A porcelain clay body, with up to one percent absorption, usually translucent; industry fires high to vitrification and glazes low; studio potters usually fire clay and glazes together to high temperatures by the traditional Asian method, or make low-fire porcelain by the European method. 2) Whiteware, vitreous and hard, sometimes translucent. 3) a general term used when discussing any kind of tableware.
Colour (US spelling: color) is a phenomenon of light caused by how our eyes detect differing qualities of projected or reflected light color