Ceramic Dictionary

by Susan Mussi

YELLOW

es: AMARILLO

Yellow is the color of the stars at night. There are different shades of yellow and it is a color that is used a lot in the Majolica method by laying it over or under a color and to form another one. The two most commonly used with this method are green copper and ochre.
There are different shades such as lemon yellow, yellow ochre.

YELLOW OCHRE

es: AMARILLO OCRE

Yellow ochre is a mixture of red and yellow and yellow is the predominant color.

The next photo shows four different colors, the base of each is yellow.

YELLOW WARE

es: CERÁMICA AMARILLA

Yellow ware was fashionable in England in about 1800. An opaque white glaze-base was mixed with yellow and the pieces were dipped into it, completely covering the inside and outside. It was decorated in two ways, either using the Majolica method directly on to the crude base or using the resist method on to a fire glaze.