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China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware. Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. Dryden. Ivory porcelain, porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing. -- Porcelain clay. See under Clay. -- Porcelain crab (Zoöl.), any crab of the gen…

y; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

Unglazed white porcelain.

ght alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. B…

An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.

a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.

A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.

of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.

A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

ith powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.

China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain. China aster (Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant. See Aster. -- China bean. See under Bean, 1. -- China clay See Kaolin. -- China grass, Same as Ramie. -- China ink. See India ink. -- China pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species…

The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.

free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick. -- Porcelain clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin. -- Potter's clay, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.

A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

rom; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.