Construction of the Ceramic Color Database

— Database of more than 300,000 glaze test pieces and its application to industrial research —

Abstract

AIST has more than 300,000 glaze test pieces, from over 80 years of ceramic studies by the Imperial Ceramic Experimental Institute and the Government Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya. These pieces are the physical evidence of the processes and the results of glaze test experiments. As such, they provide valuable information for glaze and ceramic research. The Ceramic Color Database has been constructed to make this fundamentally important information widely accessible in support of R&D in the ceramics industry. The database includes: glaze name, firing temperature, firing atmosphere, coloring, chemical composition, recipe, physical state, and other information, as well as images of the glaze pieces. The database has been used in recent ceramics research, and its effectiveness has been verified.