Ceramics art concerns the creation of products made of earth, hand moulded o mechanically moulded and fired. The words derives from the Greek name of clay and it is used in modern languages with the meaning of the word fictilis in Latin, indicating any object made of clay. According to this original meaning, maintained in many modern languages, ceramics include crockery, statues and statuettes and building elements. These objects differ in their technical features:
a) depending on the nature of the earth and of the ingredients that are sometimes added to make the body, as each variety requires a specific temperature;
b) depending on their coating, on the decorative elements and on the type of decoration. An essential raw material is a body with enough cohesion and plasticity, obtained by the mixture of an adequate amount of water with clay (see), at its natural state or mixed with other substances.   more