It excludes glass and mosaic made from glass tesserae.

In modern ceramic engineering usage, ceramics is the art and science of making objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials by the action of heat. Most traditional ceramic products were made from clay (or clay mixed with other materials), shaped and subjected to heat, and tableware and decorative ceramics are generally still made this way. The word 'ceramics' comes from the Greek keramikos (κεραμεικός), meaning 'pottery', which in turn comes from keramos (κέραμος) meaning 'potter's clay'. In a one-person pottery studio, ceramists or potters produce studio pottery. Products from a pottery are sometimes referred to as 'art pottery'. In a pottery or ceramic factory, a group of people design, manufacture and decorate the art ware. Ceramic art can be made by one person or by a group of people. Ceramics may also be considered artefacts in archaeology. While some ceramics are considered fine art, such as pottery or sculpture, most are considered to be decorative, industrial or applied art objects.

As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts.

It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. 16th century Turkish Iznik tiles, which would have originally formed part of a much larger groupĬeramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay.

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