Earthenware
A fired ceramic body that remains porous after firing, with water absorption above the threshold that separates it from stoneware and porcelain.
How it connects
Earthenware is a kind of Ceramic.
Earthenware includes Terracotta.
Other kinds of Ceramic: Brick, Porcelain, Sintered stone and Stoneware.
In other taxonomies
- EarthenwareUniclass, Ma_20_13_26nearly the same
- earthenwareGetty AAT, 300140803nearly the same
- earthenwareWikidata, Q1377111nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Record
- Broader
- Ceramic
- Narrower
- Terracotta
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); ASTM C242-20, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/earthenwareKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- narrowerCeramicincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderCeramicoutgoing
- narrowerTerracottaoutgoing
- broaderTerracottaincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Ceramicoutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Mineraloutgoing
- descendant (derived)Terracottaoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Brickoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Porcelainoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Sintered stoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Stonewareoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Ma_20_13_26 | Earthenware | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | 300140803 | earthenware | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q1377111 | earthenware | nearly the same |