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Hand-building creates ceramic works entiely by the artist's hands or with simple tools. Click to open Glossary. Porcelain is white stoneware that produces hard, durable, fine-grain, nonporous ceramic works when fired at high kiln temperatures. Click to open Glossary. Wheel throwing makes ceramic objects from raw clay on a potter's wheel. Click to open Glossary. Firing converts soft greenware to hard ceramic state by exposure to high kiln heat. Click to open Glossary. Cone is a pyramid of clay that bends at a specific temperature, used to ensure optimal temperature for a ceramic work being fired in a kiln. Click to open Glossary. Underglaze is a slip applied to greenware or bisque-fired ceramic work to seal or decorate the surface. Click to open Glossary. Refireing is the serial firing of a work at lower and lower temperatures to prevent damage to previously fired glazes. Click to open Glossary. Opalescent glazes are applied over prefired glaze to impart an iridescent sheen. Click to open Glossary. Click for more details of this citation. Good 'n Plenty is a ceramic teapot in the form of a pink handbag. Luster is an overglaze applied to a prefired glaze to impart a metallic sheen. Click to open Glossary.