Stoneware Ceramics are harder than earthenware and have a finer texture. It can hold water when unglazed. Stoneware clays can be fired to around 1300°C.Most clays are grey and coloured stoneware objects usually only have a skin of colour. However, Chinese yixing stoneware is red all the way through. Black basalts and jasperware are forms of fine stoneware first produced by Wedgwood in the mid-18th century.
