When it comes to antiques is one worth a greater value than the other?
2007-02-15 17:07:13 · 4 answers · asked by Jessica R 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Sculpture
You are having a problem with your terminology. Porcelain is a type of pottery, much like a German Shepard is a type of dog. Ceramics refers to the entire field of claymaking, from clays to glazes, from handmaking to throwing on the wheel. There are, however, several different types of clays in ceramics:
Porcelain
B-Mix
B-Mix w/sand
Soldate
LB Mix
Jamaican
Hawaiin Red...
and many others. The one defining characteristic of porcelain is that it fires WHITE. It is the only clay that does that. The next closest is off-white and that is B-Mix. The others range in colors from light brown to black.
Another important characteristic of porcelain is that it is the smoothest of all the clays. It is more difficult to handle, but the resulting piece is free grittiness. I have used earthenware clay and after the piece is done and glazed, the bottom feels like sandpaper. Not very smooth.
So Porcelain is a type of clay. It is the whitest, smoothest, and most difficult to handle clay. It is also usually more expensive.
2007-02-15 17:14:26 · answer #1 · answered by Thegustaffa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple Answer: there is no difference.
Porcelain is a type of ceramics. Ceramics= the big name of it
porcelain= the media
2007-02-16 20:50:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Joining a ceramics class isn't that expensive or hard to do if you live close to one. It can be quite enjoyable.
2007-02-17 07:12:25 · answer #3 · answered by Benvenuto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ceramic is for decoration,, Porcelain is for ralphin'
2007-02-16 01:15:25 · answer #4 · answered by Brad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋