Thermal reduction of other metal oxides beside Fe2O3 In the firing of ceramic glazes you can make an effect called oil spot.
This is done by making two layers of glaze. A bottom layer rich in iron oxide (+15%) and a top white layer that's fairly permeable. Once your reach 1225° C, the iron loses it's bond with the oxygen and goes into reduction, despite being in an oxygen rich electric kiln. So the oxygen bubbles up to the surface, taking along a bit of the iron. It then turns into FeO, and it also has something to do with magnetite which I don't understand.

Anyway, the result is that you get a white glaze with dark spots surrounded with grey/green parts, or some yellow.This effect is very nice but it only works with iron oxide as far as I know.

So my question is: are there other oxides that can have the same thermal reduction effect, and if so at what temperature. I know somebody found a way to make it in blue (it took him 4 years) so maybe he used cobalt oxide, though that looks to me to be to obvious to take 4 years. Anyway, he's not a chemist, he's a potter.

For a potter this is hard to find out but maybe for a chemist this is not that difficult to resolve, so I thought why not go to the people who know this stuff much better than us potters.
One candidate is manganese dioxide, $\ce{MnO2}$.  This decomposes at 535°C, releasing oxygen.  As the phase diagram from Ref. [1] shows below, the reduced manganese fuses with excess silica between 1250 and 1300°C, forming rhodonite ($\ce{MnSiO3}$).  You would see this as a pink color.  But, of course, I'm a chemist rather than a potter, so I make no guarantees on whether or how it works in pottery!



Reference:

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Y.-B. Kang, I.-H. Jung, H.-G. Lee, "Critical thermodynamic evaluation and optimization of the MnO–SiO2–TiO2–Ti2O3" system, Calphad
Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2006, Pages 226-234.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.calphad.2006.05.002