A name given to a whole range of stoneware and porcelain glazes ranging in color from light grey-green to deep olive-green, produced by small amounts of iron in a reduction atmosphere.

a style of Chinese porcelain that features translucent, pale green glaze

Chinese porcelain with a light green glaze.

This term is applied to high-fired ceramics with greenish-blue-grey glazes, which owe their color to the reduction of iron oxide in the glaze during firing. Celadon wares were made in China from the Shang dynasty, but those from the period 10th-14th century are particularly admired. The name is not used in Asia, but is of Western origin. It may derive from the color of a costume worn by the shepherd, Celadon, in Honoré D'Urfé's 17th century pastoral romance L'Astrée. It may alternatively derive from a corruption of the name Saladin, the name of the Sultan who, in AD 1171, sent a gift of such ceramics to the Sultan of Damascus. In China such wares are known as qingci, high-fired green wares.

This is a western term applied to certain groups of high-fired wares with green glazes, which owe their colour to the reduction during firing of a small amount of iron-oxide in the glaze composition. Such glazes appeared in China at least as early as the Han period, but reached their apogee in the Song and Yuan dynasties. Celadon wares were made in China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. The term celadon may derive from a corruption of the name of Sultan Saladin, who in AD 1171 sent a gift of such wares to the Sultan of Damascus, or may come from a 17th century pastoral romance by D' Urfe, entitled L' Astree, in which a shepherd named Celadon appears wearing a grey-green costume.

Refer to Chinese Greenware ("qingci") with varying tone of green wich is derived from glaze colour with a small percentage of iron oxide when fired under reduction atmosphere. It will become yellowish to brownish color if fired under oxidising atmosphere. Strictly speaking, it is also a class of celadon.

An green or blue-green firing reduction high temperature glaze that has been stained using iron.

A type of Chinese and Korean stoneware ceramic that is covered by a glaze containing quantities of iron. When fired in a kiln where oxygen is removed during firing (reduction firing), the glaze turns green. Korean potters incised designs into the glaze and underlying stoneware body and then filled them with light- or dark-colored slip to create "inlaid celadons."

a soft green-coloured glaze (coating which protects a ceramic object); it is made by firing (baking) an iron-based glaze at a high temperature

A Far Eastern stoneware with a green or green-blue glaze. See box on p.103.

A ceramic glaze containing iron. It must be fired by the reduction method, with its red iron oxide (ferric) reduced to black (ferroso-ferric). The final color of the glaze is either olive green, gray-green, or gray. Celadon ware was developed and perfected during the prosperous Sung dynasty. It was valued by the Chinese largely because of its resemblance to jade. The pigment known as celadon green is also called green earth, the main ingredient of which is celadonite, an iron silicate. Chinese and Korean celadon porcelain was named for the resemblance of its color to this pigment.

a transparent green colour glaze.

Chinese stonewares with an opaque grey-green glaze, first made in the Sung dynasty and still made today, principally in Korea

A grey-green, jade-like, transparent stoneware glaze. A feldspathic type glaze in which the color is derived from iron oxide fired in a reduction atmosphere. Originated in China during the 9th century.

a grayish yellow green.

stoneware with a feldspathic glaze that gives it a bluish-green colour.

(Pronunciation: "SELL-ah-dahn") Ceramic with an iron oxide glaze fired in a reduction atmosphere, producing range of colors from yellow to grey-green, olive, blue, or blue-green.

A grey-green glaze, usually pale in colour, of Chinese origin.

Celadon (; , ) is a term for ceramics denoting both a type glaze, and a ware of a specific colour, also called celadon.http://www.gotheborg.com/glossary/data/celadon.shtml "Celadon" at the Glossary of Chinese Porcelain Terms