Tile sizes

Every tile size, same four glazes, so they can be compared side by side. Hover a tile to see the fired pot; on a phone, tap it once.

Hero tile

The biggest one. Everything the full tile has, at a larger size, for the top of a page.

Albany Slip Brown glaze test tileA pot fired in Albany Slip Brown
Albany Slip Brown

AmacoPotter's Choice

⬛ Black Level

Tile #34

A modern stand-in for Albany slip, the natural clay that gave American potters their default brown for most of a century. The real material ran out decades ago. This is the color it left behind.

Ancient Copper glaze test tileA pot fired in Ancient Copper
Ancient Copper

AmacoPotter's Choice

🟪 Purple Level

Tile #11

An iron red with a metallic shimmer over it. The color is deliberately unstable across a single surface, and that is the point: it goes dark brown wherever it thins over a raised edge, and it pools a deep yellow-green wherever it gathers in a recess. Flat open areas hold the copper. The overall read is a metal object that has been buried for a while and dug back up.

Ancient Jasper glaze test tileA pot fired in Ancient Jasper
Ancient Jasper

AmacoPotter's Choice

🟪 Purple Level

Tile #5

Three colors in one jar, and which one you get is decided entirely by thickness. Thin, it fires a soft black. A little heavier, olive green. Heavier still, rust red. On one pot with any relief at all, you get all three at once.

Arctic Blue glaze test tileA pot fired in Arctic Blue
Arctic Blue

AmacoPotter's Choice

🟪 Purple Level

Tile #38

A light opaque blue with a smooth, even surface, which makes it one of the calmer glazes in a line full of loud ones. The interest is in the break: over a raised edge it pulls back to tan, so texture draws itself in a warm line against the cool field.

Full tile

Name, brand and family links, level, type, sheen, favorite, and a teaser that expands.

Albany Slip Brown glaze test tileA pot fired in Albany Slip Brown
Albany Slip Brown

AmacoPotter's Choice

⬛ Black Level

Tile #34

A modern stand-in for Albany slip, the natural clay that gave American potters their default brown for most of a century. The real material ran out decades ago. This is the color it left behind.

Ancient Copper glaze test tileA pot fired in Ancient Copper
Ancient Copper

AmacoPotter's Choice

🟪 Purple Level

Tile #11

An iron red with a metallic shimmer over it. The color is deliberately unstable across a single surface, and that is the point: it goes dark brown wherever it thins over a raised edge, and it pools a deep yellow-green wherever it gathers in a recess. Flat open areas hold the copper. The overall read is a metal object that has been buried for a while and dug back up.

Ancient Jasper glaze test tileA pot fired in Ancient Jasper
Ancient Jasper

AmacoPotter's Choice

🟪 Purple Level

Tile #5

Three colors in one jar, and which one you get is decided entirely by thickness. Thin, it fires a soft black. A little heavier, olive green. Heavier still, rust red. On one pot with any relief at all, you get all three at once.

Arctic Blue glaze test tileA pot fired in Arctic Blue
Arctic Blue

AmacoPotter's Choice

🟪 Purple Level

Tile #38

A light opaque blue with a smooth, even surface, which makes it one of the calmer glazes in a line full of loud ones. The interest is in the break: over a raised edge it pulls back to tan, so texture draws itself in a warm line against the cool field.

Partial tile

Name, brand and family links, and level. For rows where the picture does most of the work.

Basic tile

Thumbnail and name. For whole catalogs on one page.

Zero tile

Thumbnail only.