No, ceramic ware is not cheap if you want it to be microwave, diswasher, and oven safe. There are some cheap ceramic products but those usually contain toxic chemicals like lead.
If commercially viable, you may apply engobe prior to glazing in sanitary wares to make the wares free from pinholes.
Excerpt and the site:The Life of Josiah Wedgwood Wedgwood was continually seeking to lighten the color. of this earthenware and by 1775 achieved this goal by additions of Cornish stone. The Cream Ware was often decorated using a new technique called transfer printing (which is widely used in the ceramic industry today), a technique devised by John Saddler of Liverpool with whom Wedgwood collaborated from 1761 onwards, using the process throughout his whole period of creating. * http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/050300b.htm
The best way to separate ceramic bowls that are stuck together is to submerge them in hot water. You can add dish washing liquid to the water to create some slippery substance to coat the surface of the bowls.
bisque is the name of the hardened clay called after the first firing in the kiln.
Melba Ware was first manufactured in 1946. It was created by a company called H.A. Wain & Sons, L.T.D. The thing that they were most known for were ceramic animals.
Ceramic ware
No, ceramic ware is not cheap if you want it to be microwave, diswasher, and oven safe. There are some cheap ceramic products but those usually contain toxic chemicals like lead.
flatware in round shapes such as plates, bowls and mugs.
smooth in some places but quite rough in others. depends on where it has been lying.
The platinum is coated on the surfaces of the honeycomb or, on older models, on the ceramic beads.
You can damage china ware with anything. It is up to you to care for your dinner plates.
Australia
Burleigh ware is a ceramic art form consisting of a wide variety of earthenware. Once a common type of ceramic, the traditional technique of underglaze transfer printing is maintained at Burleigh and Leigh. The art form, hearkening back to the 18th century, has been produced in the traditional blue and white colors, and to a lesser degree the current red and black.
Yes, they called it witchcraft though, which is why there is not much evidence of it, but there was one piece of early internet-ware found in a cave in 1924.
goth
Carlton Ware are producers of pottery and bone china. Vintage Carlton Ware is renowned for producing rather garish tableware, e.g vases, bowls, condiment sets, particularly when art deco was at its peak in the 1920s and 30s. They are also responsible for the ceramic toucans produced as promotional items for Guinness.