montefin's Stoneware & Porcelain Pottery

RED ONIONSKIN BEER STEIN

TENMOKU PITCHER

CELADON GINGER JAR

Stoneware is pottery fired to white heat, (1200° to 1400° C.). These temperatures, give certain clays the smooth qualities of once melted stone.

Stoneware is non-porous (even when unglazed) and rock hard with a clear, crisp ring when struck. Chinese potters of the 2nd thru 6th centuries AD, were the first to control stoneware temperatures in their immense hillclimbing, woodburning kilns. With development of pure white high-fire clays, they also invented Porcelain -- distinguished from Stoneware by being translucent in thin sections. The processes for making Porcelain were a closely guarded state secret the breach of which was punishable by death.

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