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Pottery fired to a high temperature, usually over 1200°C, at which the fabric of the vessel vitrifies. Stoneware seems to have been produced first at Siegburg in Germany about 1200 ad.

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in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance Length: 219 words
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