Shino refers to a genre of ceramics that originated in Japan in the 16th century and is still highly prized today for its tactile and visual qualities.

Seladon refers to grey-green to blue-green thickly applied feldspar glazes whose special colouring comes from iron oxide.

The salt glaze is an approach glaze. While other glazes are applied before firing, the salt glaze is created during firing.

Lustre refers to the shiny metallic surface on glazes (e.g. faiences).

Crystal glazes are glazes in which crystals grow in the glaze during the firing process. They are formed during the cooling process and solidify with the glaze.

Glaze is a glass-like layer which, from a purely functional point of view, is mainly used to provide the porous shards underneath (term for a fired ceramic mass) with a waterproof, dense coating.

This genre of pottery was born out of a desire to copy the brilliant white porcelain that could not be made in Europe until the 18th century because of a lack of kaolin.

Engobe refers to a mixture of finely slurried clay liquefied with water, which is applied to raw or also bisqued ceramic workpieces for decoration.