Pottery vs. Porcelain

Potterynoun

Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.

‘The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.’;

Porcelainnoun

A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.

‘Tableware and toilets are both made of porcelain.’;

Potterynoun

(countable) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made.

‘I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.’;

Porcelainnoun

: porcelain tableware.

‘He set the table with our porcelain and stemware.’;

Potterynoun

The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.

‘Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.’;

Porcelainnoun

: the kind of clay traditionally used in China to manufacture porcelain.

Potterynoun

The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.

Porcelainnoun

An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware.

‘The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains.’;

Potterynoun

The place where earthen vessels are made.

Porcelainnoun

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Potterynoun

ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln

Porcelainnoun

: strings of shells, beads, etc. used as ornamentation or currency; the composite shells, beads, etc.

Potterynoun

the craft of making earthenware

Porcelainnoun

A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers.

Potterynoun

a workshop where clayware is made

Porcelainnoun

Purslain.

Porcelainnoun

A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; - called also China, or China ware.

‘Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break.’;

Porcelainnoun

ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic

Porcelain

Porcelain () is a ceramic material made by heating materials, generally including a material like kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 and 1,400 °C (2,200 and 2,600 °F). The 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.