What are Traditional body colorant?
Traditional ceramic works of art use the same color, color mud, and mostly use transition metal oxide or some natural colored minerals. In addition to chromite, other colorants are fired in the ceramic body, with its ionic state play the role of color. They are affected by the composition of the body and the firing temperature and atmosphere. And the color is unstable.
Traditional body colorant
Colorant | Dosage (mass %) | In white body after 1230℃ firing |
CuO | 2.5 | Light olive - green |
Fe2O3 | 2 | light pink |
Fe2O3 | 8 | black |
MnO2 | 3 | black |
Co2O3 | 1 | black |
Cr2O3 | 3 | grey green |
Co2O3 | 2.5 | light blue |
CuO | 2 | grey - brown |
Fe2O3 | 2 | grey - brown |
ilmenite | 6 | light brown |
chromite | 6 | Gray brown |

