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Hand-building involves creating a ceramic work by the artist's hands alone or with simple tools. Click to open Glossary. Porcelain is a white stoneware clay that forms hard, durable, fine-grained, nonporous ceramic works when fired at high kiln temperatures. Click to open Glossary. Wheel throwing yield objects from raw clay on a potter's wheel. Click to open Glossary. Press mold uses cast or mold made in plaster from an original object to reproduce a negative of the original form. Click to open Glossary. Firing converts soft greenware to hard ceramic state by firing at high kiln temperatures. Click to open Glossary. Cone is a pyramid of clay and glaze that bends at specific temperature, used to ensure optimal temperature for a given work being fired in a kiln. Click to open Glossary. Underglaze is a slip applied to greenware or bisque-fired ceramic to decorate or seal the surface. Click to open Glossary. Glaze is a liquid applied to the surface of a ceramic object to decorate or seal it. Click to open Glossary. Opalescent glaze is applied to impart an iridescent sheen to the surface of a ceramic work. Click to open Glossary. Refiring is the process of repetitive firing at lower and lower temperatures to prevent damage to previously fired glazes. Click to open Glossary. Luster is an overglaze applied to impart a metallic sheen to the surface of a ceramic work. Click to open Glossary. Daisy Duke Hot Tea Jeans is a ceramic teapot in the form of a pair of short blue jeans. Overglaze is applied over a prefired glaze to provide decorative details. Click to open Glossary.