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  2. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Hand building a jar. Finished pottery products kept for drying in the sun. Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery (plural ...

  3. Ancient Egyptian pottery - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian pottery includes all objects of fired clay from ancient Egypt. [1] First and foremost, ceramics served as household wares for the storage, preparation, transport, and consumption of food, drink, and raw materials. Such items include beer and wine mugs and water jugs, but also bread moulds, fire pits, lamps, and stands for ...

  4. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component. Ceramics are used for utilitarian cooking vessels, serving and storage vessels, pipes, funerary urns, censers, musical instruments, ceremonial items, masks, toys, sculptures ...

  5. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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    Pottery is also: (1) the art and wares made by potters; (2) a ceramic material (3) a place where pottery wares are made; and (4) the business of the potter. ( W) Published definitions of Pottery include: -- "All fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products."

  6. Mexican ceramics - Wikipedia

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    The raw clay is dug with a pick and shovel in the rugged foothills outside the town. It is cleaned by soaking it in water until it can be poured through a sieve. White clay is a favorite to work with but many colors are used. A potter's wheel is not used. The bottom of the pot is molded and the upper part is created by the coil method.

  7. Pueblo pottery - Wikipedia

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    Pueblo I potters experimented with various materials, most commonly sand or crushed sandstone, to temper their clay for hardness. In the later years of the Pueblo I period and the early Pueblo II period, potters in the Chaco Canyon and Chuska areas in what is now New Mexico began tempering their clay with crushed potsherds .

  8. Ceramic art - Wikipedia

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    16th century Turkish Iznik tiles, which would have originally formed part of a much larger group. Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take varied forms, including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is a visual art.

  9. Ancient Roman pottery - Wikipedia

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    Unusually ambitious Samian ware flask from Southern Gaul around 100 AD. Heracles is killing Laomedon. Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond. Monte Testaccio is a huge waste mound in Rome made almost entirely of broken amphorae used ...

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