Agateware in seramic art

Ill ABSTRACT The Human, who learned pottery making by mixed clay and water and firing, begin to both search for various materials and give shape to clay, through the development of aesthetically care. In this work, porcelain and earthenware which both have a white colour after high temperatures firing were used. The coloured experiments of bodies were applied with adding of basic colorant oxides in determined proportions. In this study, the shaping method, known as "agateware", that is a coloured clay technique and is mixed by various methods of different colour clays were explained with historical development, application level and examples of artists from various countries and Turkey.