The shell inside is porcelaneous, usually purplish-brown or whitish in colour.

As with the entire order, the test is composed of imperforate, porcelaneous calcite.

It is porcelaneous on the edge, brilliantly nacreous within.

The globular shell is imperforate or nearly so, thick and strong, with a porcelaneous texture.

It is a little porcelaneous, and flexuously ribbed.

The aperture is round, scarcely oblique, with a translucent porcelaneous edge, and pearly within.

The porcelaneous white aperture has an oval shape and has a finely dentate outer lip.

Aveolinella are formanifera from the milioline family Alveolinidae and as miliolines have imperforate porcelaneous walls to their tests.

The shell is porcelaneous (i.e. the surface of the shell is strong, hard, shiny, and somewhat translucent, like porcelain).

And with their stylish coifs and porcelaneous complexions, they are emblems of the mania for social refinement that swept 19th-century America.

Archaiasinids and related porcelaneous larger foraminifera from the Late Miocene of the Dominican Republic.

The color of the shell is dead white (on the base a little glossy) on the thin porcelaneous surface, through which ihe nacreous layer behind gleams.

As with all miliolids the test of Quinqueloculina is composed of imperphorate, porcelaneous calcite, often giving them a yellowish tint.

These include porcelaneous white wares from Northern Chinese kilns, celadon-glazed stoneware originating in the Yue kilns of Northern Zhejiang, and the splashed stoneware of Changsha kilns in Hunan Province.

Shards recovered from archaeological Eastern Han kiln sites estimated firing temperature ranged from 1260 to 1300 C. As far back as 1000 BC, the so-called "porcelaneous wares" or "proto-porcelain wares" were made using at least some kaolin fired at high temperatures.