The latest addition to the Dinnerware Ceramics Glossary.

Majolica

Technique for low fire glazing. An opaque tin glaze is applied to earthenware and painted with different coloured oxides.

Matching

A trade name to describe a replacement of a design made earlier either by the same or a different manufacturer.

Matt Glaze

A dull glaze surface, not very reflective when fired. It needs a slow cooling period or it may turn shiny.

Maturing Point

The temperature point at which the clay becomes hard and durable.

Mould

A plaster shape designed to pour slip cast into and let dry so the shape comes out as an exact replica of the mould.

Old Gold

A yellow colour applied to the edge of an object, usually earthenware, to give the semblance of a gilded edge.

On-glaze

Decoration of ware after the glaze has been fired.

Opaque Glaze

Non-transparent glaze, it covers the clay or glaze below it.

Ovalware

Oval shaped wares, for example meat platters.

Oxidation

Firing with a full supply of oxygen. It creates bright colours.