Ceramics: Raku, Glazes and Faience
Kaolin, thermal shock and tin glaze: can you tell porcelain, faience and raku apart?
What this quiz asks
- 1Which white clay gives porcelain its delicacy?
- 2Which technique pulls the piece from the kiln while it is still glowing red?
- 3What is a glaze in ceramics?
- 4In which country was porcelain invented?
- 5What is faience traditionally coated with?
- 6Which country is raku from?
- 7What sets porcelain apart from faience above all?
- 8What do you call a piece fired once but not yet glazed?
- 9What colour is a celadon glaze traditionally?
- 10In raku, what causes the fine web of cracks in the glaze?
