Pottery Terminology Quiz

What is the term for attaching thin pieces of clay to the body of your piece for the purpose of decoration?

• Bat

• Appliqué

• Bisque

• Burnish

What is a disk on which pottery is formed or dried, often used when working on the pottery wheel?

• Bat

• Bisque

• Bone dry

• Centering

What is the term for unfired clay that is free from water and ready to fire?

• Bisque

• Bone dry

• Glaze

• Greenware

What is the process of making clay products permanent through baking at high temperatures in a kiln?

• Glaze

• Firing

• Burnish

• Centering

What is the term for the base of a piece of pottery, which is usually left unglazed and raises the main piece slightly from the resting surface?

• Foot

• Bat

• Extruder

• Drape mold

What is the method of creating pots by building the walls with rope-like coils of clay?

• Coiling

• Centering

• Appliqué

• Burnish

What is the term for a piece of equipment that forces clay through a die to give strips of clay, which are shaped by the profile apertures of a die?

• Drape mold

• Extruder

• Glaze

• Bat

What is the term for the maturing temperature at which glaze will melt to form a surface coating?

• Glaze fire

• Bisque fire

• Bone dry

• Greenware

What is the method of creating clay pieces off the potter's wheel called?

• Incising

• Hand building

• Pinching

• Throwing

What is the purpose of incising in clay work?

• To join pieces of clay

• To create a glaze effect

• To carve into the surface for decoration

• To eliminate air bubbles