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Vintage Carolina Craft mission Stickley era art pottery

Vintage Carolina Craft mission Stickley era art pottery

 $175.00 16m
ROSEVILLE SUNFLOWER POTTERY VASE UNUSUAL - BEAUTIFUL

ROSEVILLE SUNFLOWER POTTERY VASE UNUSUAL - BEAUTIFUL

 13 $356.19 16m
Little Orange & Blue Nemadji Pottery Vase

Little Orange & Blue Nemadji Pottery Vase

 - $3.99 17m
Vintage Vallauris signed French art pottery vase..11"

Vintage Vallauris signed French art pottery vase..11"

 $99.95 17m
Torquay Watcombe Pottery Mustard Pot Ye Olde Romsey

Torquay Watcombe Pottery Mustard Pot Ye Olde Romsey

 7 $6.09 19m
Italy hand painted decorativ pottery

Italy hand painted decorativ pottery

 $8.00 19m
COBALT BLUE & WHITE PLATE CERAMIC POTTERY CHINA?10-1 2"

COBALT BLUE & WHITE PLATE CERAMIC POTTERY CHINA?10-1 2"

 $6.95 20m
Lime & Brown Pottery 374 USA

Lime & Brown Pottery 374 USA

 - $9.99 21m
Pottery Barn Kids Peter Rabbit Porcelain Plates - 4 NIB

Pottery Barn Kids Peter Rabbit Porcelain Plates - 4 NIB

 $69.99 23m
Mid Century modern Yellow Bauer CA pottery floor vase

Mid Century modern Yellow Bauer CA pottery floor vase

 $275.00 25m
Torquay Pottery Perfume Bottle Devon Violets

Torquay Pottery Perfume Bottle Devon Violets

 1 $1.48 25m
Vintage Hull Pottery Blossom Flite T12 Flower Bowl VGC

Vintage Hull Pottery Blossom Flite T12 Flower Bowl VGC

 9 $42.78 25m
TEAGUES FROGTOWN POTTERY JAR W LID NC NORTH CAROLINA

TEAGUES FROGTOWN POTTERY JAR W LID NC NORTH CAROLINA

- $14.99 25m
Vintage CALIFORNIA POTTERY 3 Section Divided Bowl Plate

Vintage CALIFORNIA POTTERY 3 Section Divided Bowl Plate

 - $9.99 26m
American Bisque FOX PLANTER Pottery Ceramic Big Ears

American Bisque FOX PLANTER Pottery Ceramic Big Ears

 $18.00 26m
VINTAGE SAVOY 24 KARAT WEEPING GOLD POTTERY VASE.

VINTAGE SAVOY 24 KARAT WEEPING GOLD POTTERY VASE.

 10 $43.00 27m
Devon Torquay Pottery Sugar Bowl Scalloped Rim

Devon Torquay Pottery Sugar Bowl Scalloped Rim

 1 $4.48 30m
Pretty Pottery Dish Queen Anne's Lace & Timothy

Pretty Pottery Dish Queen Anne's Lace & Timothy

 - $4.99 31m
Excellent 4 Metlox Pottery Fruit Basket Salad Plates

Excellent 4 Metlox Pottery Fruit Basket Salad Plates

 $15.99 33m
Vintage California Los Angeles Potteries Snack Bowl

Vintage California Los Angeles Potteries Snack Bowl

 - $2.99 34m
Rare 14" Stangl Pottery Plate KH Kay Hackett Sail Boat

Rare 14" Stangl Pottery Plate KH Kay Hackett Sail Boat

 6 $161.48 36m
English Pottery Ashtray

English Pottery Ashtray

 - $4.99 36m
PANDA BEAR DESIGN POTTERY VINTAGE VASE?OR PLANTER?

PANDA BEAR DESIGN POTTERY VINTAGE VASE?OR PLANTER?

 - $6.99 37m
RARE! Sunburst Pottery Birch Bark BBQ Place Setting

RARE! Sunburst Pottery Birch Bark BBQ Place Setting

 $249.99 40m
Devon Torquay Pottery Motto Pinched Top Milk Jug

Devon Torquay Pottery Motto Pinched Top Milk Jug

8 $18.08 41m
UNUSUAL SARREGUEMINES FRENCH POTTERY FAIENCE BOWL

UNUSUAL SARREGUEMINES FRENCH POTTERY FAIENCE BOWL

 3 $44.91 41m
HALL POTTERY BEAN POTS?5PC. DARK BROWN VERY NICE!!

HALL POTTERY BEAN POTS?5PC. DARK BROWN VERY NICE!!

 - $10.99 41m
(4) Thomson Pottery BIRDHOUSE Bread & Butter Plates

(4) Thomson Pottery BIRDHOUSE Bread & Butter Plates

 $8.99 41m
American Pottery "Blackback Flounder" Server (18"x9")

American Pottery "Blackback Flounder" Server (18"x9")

 - $65.00 43m
set of 3 iron stone pottery porcelain pudding mold fish

set of 3 iron stone pottery porcelain pudding mold fish

 $60.00 43m

Pottery News

  • History of Pottery The production of pottery is one of the most ancient arts. The oldest known body of pottery dates from the Jomon period (from about 10,500 to 400 BC) in Japan and even the earliest Jomon ceramics exhibit a unique sophistication of technique and design. Excavations in the Near East have revealed that primitive fired-clay vessels were made there more than 8,000 years ago. Potters were working in Iran by about 5500 BC, and earthenware was probably being produced even earlier on the Iranian high plateau. Chinese potters had developed characteristic techniques by about 5000 BC. In the New World many pre-Columbian American cultures developed highly artistic pottery traditions. After general sections on basic pottery types and decorating techniques this article focuses on the development of Western pottery since the beginning of the Renaissance. For detailed treatment of ancient Western and non-Western pottery, see Chinese art and architecture; Egypt, ancient; Greek art; Islamic art and architecture; Japanese art and architecture; Korean art; Mesopotamia Minoan art Persian art and architecture; pre-Columbian art and architecture.

     

    TYPES OF WARES

     

    Pottery comprises three distinctive types of wares. The first type, earthenware, has been made following virtually the same techniques since ancient times; only in the modern era has mass production brought changes in materials and methods. Earthenware is basically composed of clay--often blended clays--and baked hard, the degree of hardness depending on the intensity of the heat. After the invention of glazing, earthenwares were coated with glaze to render them waterproof; sometimes glaze was applied decoratively. It was found that, when fired at great heat, the clay body became nonporous. This second type of pottery, called stoneware, came to be preferred for domestic use. The third type of pottery is a Chinese invention that appeared when feldspathic material in a fusible state was incorporated in a stoneware composition. The ancient Chinese called decayed feldspar kaolin (meaning "high place," where it was originally found); this substance is known in the West as china clay. Petuntse, or china stone, a less decayed, more fusible feldspathic material, was also used in Chinese porcelain; it forms a white cement that binds together the particles of less fusible kaolin. Significantly, the Chinese have never felt that high-quality porcelain must be either translucent or white. Two types of porcelain evolved: "true" porcelain, consisting of a kaolin hard-paste body, extremely glassy and smooth, produced by high temperature firing, and soft porcelain, invariably translucent and lead glazed, produced from a composition of ground glass and other ingredients including white clay and fired at a low temperature. The latter was widely produced by 18th-century European potters. It is believed that porcelain was first made by Chinese potters toward the end of the Han period (206 BC-AD 220), when pottery generally became more refined in body, form, and decoration. The Chinese made early vitreous wares (protoporcelain) before they developed their white vitreous ware (true porcelain) that was later so much admired by Europeans. Regardless of time or place, basic pottery techniques have varied little except in ancient America, where the potters wheel was unknown. Among the requisites of success are correct composition of the clay body by using balanced materials; skill in shaping the wet clay on the wheel or pressing it into molds; and, most important, firing at the correct temperature. The last operation depends vitally on the experience, judgment, and technical skill of the potter. DECORATING TECHNIQUES In the course of their long history potters have used many decorating techniques. Among the earliest, impressing and incising of wares are still favored. Ancient potters in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, northern India, and the high regions of Central Asia (where primitive terra-cotta figures associated with religious cults were produced) frequently decorated wares with impressed or incised designs. A notable incising technique developed more recently was that of Korean potters working in the Koryo period (918-1392). These artisans began by ornamenting their celadon wares with delicately incised and impressed patterns and later developed elaborate inlaying by filling incised lines with colored slip (semiliquid clay). Black and white slip was used most effectively for inlaying colored porcelains. Decoration of this sort generally depends more on the skill of the artisan than on the complexity of the tools being used. An especially popular type of decoration involved the sgraffito, or scratched technique used by Italian potters before the 15th century. This technique, which is thought to have reached Italy from the Near East, was probably derived from China, where it was first used during the Song (Sung) dynasty (960-1279). By the 16th century Italian potters working mainly in Padua and Bologna had developed great skill in sgraffito, which entailed the incising of designs on red or buff earthenware that had been coated with ordinary transparent lead glaze, usually toned yellow or, sometimes, brown, copper, or green. After firing, the wares were dipped into white clay slip so that a dark pattern could be cut on the surface. By cutting through the white slip, the artist produced a design on the exposed red or buff body. Pigments were also sometimes applied. After a further coating of lead glaze the ware was fired a second time.