I’m sure there are others I’m missing, and I suspect ceramic is just the “overall” material. Like “pottery” is the overall object/art/act of making.
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well, throw each into google, if needed also do [this] vs [that]. These are all the first sentences of the first results
> Stoneware is a broad term for pottery fired at a relatively high temperature. Typically between about 1,100 °C (2,010 °F) to 1,300 °C (2,370 °F)
> Ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.
> Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous (fancy word for “not glassy”) pottery that has normally been fired below 1,200 °C (2,190 °F). Basic earthenware, often called terracotta, absorbs liquids such as water.
> Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 and 1,400 °C (2,200 and 2,600 °F).
> Fine china most often refers to Porcelain
> Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery,[1] the raw materials for which include bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin.
> Terracotta is a term used in some contexts for earthenware. It is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramic, fired at relatively low temperatures.
So, that clears up most things
China is Porcelain from chinesse culture, bone china is china with bone in the ceramic
Terracotta is unglazed Earthenware
Stoneware is anything fired at high temperature.
And it is all Ceramic, which is the broad classification of all of it.
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