Ceramic Pot

Pottery

Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where a potter makes such wares is also called a pottery. The definition of pottery, used by the ASTM International, is "all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products". End applications include tableware, decorative ware, sanitary ware, and in technology and industry such as electrical insulators and laboratory ware. In art history and archaeology, especially of ancient and prehistoric periods, pottery often means only vessels, and sculpted figurines of the same material are called terracottas.

Ceramic

A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain, and brick.

ceramic

Adjective

1. Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.

Noun

1. A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, made by firing a material such as clay at a high temperature.
2. An object made of this material.

pot

Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Potawatomi.

Noun

1. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
2. The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.