What is the main difference between pottery and porcelain?

Pottery and porcelain are actually made of clay, but the composition of clay is different. Most porcelains are made of clay. Workers first make a mold, and then pour the mud into the mold. When the mud dries, it becomes the prototype of porcelain. Then after coating glaze on the slurry, it can be fired into porcelain in the kiln. Fired porcelain is very thin, with good light transmission and can glow in the light.

Even if it is not made of mud, the tire of porcelain is extremely thin. Usually, the tire materials used for porcelain are very delicate, with good tensile strength and viscosity. Workers will carefully make tire soles into porcelain shapes, which requires a good understanding of modeling skills and soil characteristics.

Generally speaking, the method of the washer is to beat out the mud blank first, which is made of soil and water. After the mud blank is made, it needs to be manually kneaded into the shape of a washer. Generally, when making pottery, a rotating Tao Pan is used. Put the clay on the clay plate, turn the clay plate with electricity, and pull the clay into the desired shape.

After doing the basic modeling, you can brush the glaze and fire it in the furnace. After firing, the color of pottery is very simple and elegant, not as bright as porcelain. In terms of heaviness, Tao Tao is also heavier than porcelain, because Tao Tao is made of a whole piece of clay, which is heavier than porcelain.

Moreover, the surface of the scrubber is rough and the surface of porcelain is smooth. Because the clay will crack in the firing process, this will lead to some cracked textures on the surface of the washer, which will appear rough. But it is these rough feelings that make Tao look simple and attractive.

On the contrary, the surface of porcelain is very smooth, because the enamel of porcelain is different from that of pottery, and glazed porcelain will not crack when burned, so it looks rough. It is this sense of roughness that highlights the unique beauty of porcelain.

Porcelain and pottery both embody the spirit of China and are a kind of realm beauty pursued by literati.