=Celadon.= The soft green colour upon pieces of old Oriental. See further in the section dealing with colours mixed with the glaze and burnt in at the first firing. European glaze is nearly always transparent and colourless.
=China= or Porcelain Paste is translucid, in pottery it is opaque.
=Colours.= Five colours:--green, yellow, aubergine, blue, and red. Three colours:--green, a curious shade; yellow, varying from pale to bright; aubergine, also varying in tone.
=Egg-shell China= first appeared in the Yung-lo period, and later it was as thin as bamboo paper. Under the Lung-king and Wan-leih emperors pure white porcelain of this kind was called "egg-shell." In many pieces the paste is so thin as to appear to be only two layers of glaze.
=Enamel.= Mixed with a glassy composition were certain transparent or opaque colours which were used in over the glaze decoration. In pottery they are used in the glaze.
=Fen-ting.= Soft paste, or more correctly, soft glaze porcelain.
=Figures,= Figurines, Magots, Statuettes, are single, grouped, or attached as ornaments to a piece; such as the eight immortals, etc.
=Forms.= These are diversified. Cylindrical, globular or spheroidal, egg-shaped or ovoid; apple-shaped or pomiform, pear-shaped or pyriform; cubical, hexagonal, etc.
=Glaze.= The composition used for coating porcelain or pottery. It literally means covering with glass or any vitrifiable substance having similar properties.
=Grand Feu.= The kiln at its greatest heat in which the clays were acted upon so as to produce porcelain or pottery. The decoration was often fixed in the "petit feu," or muffle kiln. The hard firing, when less than the maximum heat was required, was done in the "demi-grand feu."
=Graviata.= This name is given to patterns traced or cut on the porcelain or on the enamel.
="Hundred Antiques."= A form of decoration, consisting of utensils, symbols, vases, &c., called "_po-ku_."
=Kaolin.= Porcelain or china clay, derived from the decomposition of granite rocks.
=Kiln.= "Grand feu" first baking, temperature about 4717° Fahrenheit. "Demi-grand feu" for fixing colours which could bear intense heat which were applied before glazing. More delicate enamel colours were applied for firing in the "petit feu" or muffle kiln.