Ceramics
4 objects
Clay bodies from stoneware to hard-paste porcelain. What separates them is firing temperature, and what that buys is the wall thickness a form can get away with.

Hard-paste porcelain, gilded silver · ca. 1573–85, mounts ca. 1585 · 03-01

Hard-paste porcelain · 1820–25 · 1993.335

Stoneware, clay, gilt · 1882–86 · 03-03

Earthenware · ca. 1893 · 03-04