Modern ceramic industry prefers using yellow, orange, and red chromate pigments chemically based on lead chromates. Thus intensive research leading to development of pigments eliminating addition of heavy metals and in the same time maintaining the quality of colouration and other pigment properties is underway. Substances satisfying such conditions may be those based on SnO2 a BaSO4 (alternatively BaCO3). When they are appropriately doped with other elements, mainly with lanthanides, their thermal stability and colour properties can change considerably.