Dishes made of china, tableware made of china. china-ware.

Glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors.
Glazed decorative earthenware.
Any glazed earthenware, using crushed quartz. Faience was used in ancient Egypt for amulets, tiles, and small statues, although the term itself derives from the Italian city of Faenza, famous for majolica in the Renaissance.

A strong opaque ceramic ware that is high-fired, well vitrified, and nonporous
Is high-fired, vitrified and nonporous.
Very hard, opaque, water-resistant pottery made of non-porous clay with feldspar and a high silica content, fired to the point of vitrification (1,200–1,280ş C/2,192–2,336ş f).
Glazing decorates and gives it a smooth finish; it usually fires to shades of gray or buff, though some red stonewares do exist. The earliest examples are Chinese, from the 10th to 3rd centuries bc.
From the 9th century ad stoneware was made in N Europe; in Britain from the late 17th century. + prikaži više