Glaze is a thin shiny coating, or the act of applying the coating.

Glaze also means to install glass windows.

Cooking technique

Glaze in cooking is a coating of a glossy, often sweet, mixture applied to food. Egg whites and icing are both used as glazes. Cooking is the act of preparing food for consumption. ... A carton of free-range chicken eggs Ostrich egg Bird eggs are a common food source. ... Icing (also frosting) is a sweet glaze made of sugar, butter, water, and egg whites or milk, often flavoured and cooked and used to cover or decorate baked goods, such as cakes or cookies. ...

Painting technique

Glaze in painting is a transparent medium. Whatever is on the surface beneath the glaze shows through applied medium. A glaze changes the color cast or texture (gloss or matte, for instance) of the surface. For many centuries painters have applied glazes to their works. The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ...

When the technique is used for wall glazing, the entire surface is covered, often showing traces of texture (French brush, parchment, striae, rag rolling). Either oil-based or water-based materials are used for glazing walls, depending upon the desired effect. Kerosene or linseed oil may be used to extend the "open" or working time of oil-based glazes. Water-based glazes are sometimes thinned with glycerin or another wetting agent to extend the working time. In general, water glazes are best suited to rougher textures where overlaps of color are acceptable. Glazing, in architecture, is a transparent part of a wall, usually made of glass or plastic. ...

Scumble is a technique similar to glazing, except that coating is opaque.

Ceramic glazes

A glaze is a vitreous coating to a ceramic material whose primary purposes are decoration or protection. Glazes can be considered specialised forms of glass and therefore can be described as super-cooled liquids that exhibit high viscosity at room temperatures and have been cooled to a rigid condition without crystallising into a regular crystal structure

In pottery, glazing is the process of coating the piece with a thin layer of a glassy material. After applying a glaze, the pottery is fired, and the powdered coating melts into a glass-like coating. Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ...

Glazing is functionally important for earthenware vessels, which would otherwise be unsuitable for holding liquids due to porosity. Glaze is also used on functional and decorative ware made of stoneware and porcelain. In addition to the functional aspect of glazes, aesthetic concerns include a smooth pleasing surface, the degree of gloss and finished color. Glazes may also enhance an underlying inscribed, carved or painted design. Earthenware is a ceramic made from potash, sand, feldspar and clay. ... Stoneware is an impervious type of pottery distinguished primarily by its firing temperature (from about 1200°C to 1315°C). ... Porcelain is a hard ceramic substance made by heating at high temperature selected and refined materials often including clay in the form of kaolinite. ...

Glaze may be applied by dusting a dry mixture over the clay, or by dipping the piece in the slurry of glaze and water. Liquid glaze can also be applied by splashing or with a brush. Brushing tends not to give an even covering, but can be effective with a second coating of a coloured glaze as a decorative technique.

With all glazed items, a small part of the item (usually on the base of the piece) must be left unglazed, else it will stick to the kiln during firing. To prevent glazed and stacked pieces from sticking together, kiln spurs were invented. Early pottery, such as European faïences until the early 18th century, often has clearly visible marks from such spurs. Kiln spurs are supports, often in the shape of a tripod, used to maintain the shape and separate pieces of pottery during the firing process. ...

Decoration applied under the glaze on pottery, is generally referred to as underglaze. Pigments are applied to the surface of the pottery piece, either in a raw or green state or having been bisque fired. The wet glaze is applied over the decoration. The pigment fuses with the glaze, and appears to be under a layer of clear glaze. An example of underglaze decoration is the well known "blue and white" porcelain produced in China and Japan. The striking blue colour is achieved by using a cobalt pigment, fired at the correct temperature. An underglaze is a decorative technique used in pottery. ... In biology, pigment is any material resulting in color in plant or animal cells which is the result of selective absorption. ... Blue and white is a term that denotes decoration in underglaze blue on the white body of both pottery and porcelain, whether Oriental, European or American, hand-painted or printed. ... Porcelain is a hard ceramic substance made by heating at high temperature selected and refined materials often including clay in the form of kaolinite. ... General Name, Symbol, Number cobalt, Co, 27 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 9, 4, d Appearance metallic with gray tinge Atomic mass 58. ... Temperature is the physical property of a system which underlies the common notions of hot and cold; the material with the higher temperature is said to be hotter. ...

Decoration applied on top of a layer of glaze, is referred to as overglaze. Overglaze methods include applying one or more layers or coats of glaze on a piece of pottery or by applying a non-glaze substance such as enamel or metals over a glaze. This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ... The word enamel can mean more than one thing: Tooth enamel Vitreous enamel Enamel (markup language) Enameled wire This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

See also

• Pottery
• Porcelain
• Swatow ware

Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ... Porcelain is a hard ceramic substance made by heating at high temperature selected and refined materials often including clay in the form of kaolinite. ... Swatow ware or Swatow is a common name for a group of mainly late Ming export porcelain from China intended for the South East Asian market. ...