Abstract: A colored frit prepared by fusing by heating a material composition comprising a devitrifying substance, a coloring agent and glass, and a method for manufacturing an artificial stone made by utilizing the colored frit. In the method of manufacturing artificial stones, the colored frits alone or a mixture of at least one kind of the colored frits and at least one kind of the colored frits and at least one kind of frits containing fluormicas are sintered, so that the colored frits are devitrified and the colors of the devitrified colored frits become distinctly visible to a viewer. This produces artificial stones having a wide variety of distinct colors and patterns.

Abstract: A crystallized glass-ceramic molded product having a glass matrix and crystallized calcium fluoride and fluormica dispersed therein. The molded product is prepared by mixing and melting together the necessary constituents for forming the glass, calcium fluoride and fluormica and rapidly cooling the melt to produce a frit. Particles of the frit or of two or more frits are then subjected to sintering and crystallizing heat treatments.