Advanced Ceramics Final Exam Study Guide

A flat disk or slab of sturdy material on which pottery is formed or dried.

• Board

• Foot

• Banding wheel

• Bat

The activity of shaping clay on the potter's wheel.

• Sprigging

• Throwing

• Casting

• Handbuilding

To construct clay forms without the use of a potter’s wheel

• Sprigging

• Throwing

• Casting

• Handbuilding

The process of putting a soft or liquid material into a form which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowing it to solidify.

• Throw

• Mold

• Casting

• Fluting

Grooves cut into the clay in parallel lines running in any direction.

• Impressed design

• Trimming

• Sprigging

• Fluting

The base of a pot

• Foot

• Bat

• Cast

• Bottom

A decoration stamped into leather-hard clay with a tool, form, or other material.

• Impressed design

• Incising

• Trailing

• Fluting

A hollow form used to give shape to a plastic material.

• Loop tool

• Modeling tool

• Cast

• Mold

A color or design applied to greenware before it has been fired or glazed.

• Wax resist

• Sgraffito

• Underglaze

• Trailing

A decoration created by scratching away parts of a surface layer to expose a different colored ground.

• Wax resist

• Sgraffito

• Underglaze

• Surface texture