In the research of ceramic glazes, the process of preparing the glaze test pieces and improving the recipe is repeated. Our institute, AIST Japan, has more than 300,000 glaze test pieces from over 80 years of ceramic studies. These pieces are the physical evidence of the processes and the results of glaze test experiments. As such, they provide valuable information for glaze and ceramic research. The Ceramic Color Database has been constructed to make this fundamentally important information widely accessible in support of R&D in the ceramics industry. The database includes: glaze name, firing temperature, firing atmosphere, coloring, chemical composition, recipe, physical state, and other information, as well as images of the glaze pieces. The database has been used in recent ceramics research, and its effectiveness has been verified. It was also recognized that the vast amount of data provided by the database is useful in the material development and basic research of fields other than ceramics. The database has been improved based on such usage status. In this paper, the structure and usage of the database are described and the future development of the database is discussed.
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