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Drip Glaze Art Pottery Serving Platter

Drip Glaze Art Pottery Serving Platter

 $21.99 17m
USA Pottery by RUM RILL Pottery Pink VASE Nude Figure

USA Pottery by RUM RILL Pottery Pink VASE Nude Figure

3 $27.50 28m
BLUE Pot BOWL Pottery Unsigned Molted Semi Squat

BLUE Pot BOWL Pottery Unsigned Molted Semi Squat

- $9.99 38m
PATES POTTERIES AUSTRALIAN VASE RETRO VINTAGE

PATES POTTERIES AUSTRALIAN VASE RETRO VINTAGE

 - $4.32 44m
Fairfield Pottery Studio- vase with pine trees- Nice!

Fairfield Pottery Studio- vase with pine trees- Nice!

 - $17.95 46m
Mccoy Vintage Planter Wishing Well Pottery

Mccoy Vintage Planter Wishing Well Pottery

 - $15.00 50m
McCoy Pitchure and Bowl Pottery

McCoy Pitchure and Bowl Pottery

 $35.00 54m
1960's VASE BY YARRABAR POTTERY DUBBO NSW

1960's VASE BY YARRABAR POTTERY DUBBO NSW

 - $7.77 1h 1m
CALIFORNIA POTTERY PITCHER #9A241

CALIFORNIA POTTERY PITCHER #9A241

 - $7.99 1h 1m
GRAYS POTTERY-Ashtray Sweets-Old Mill-England

GRAYS POTTERY-Ashtray Sweets-Old Mill-England

 $30.27 1h 7m
Roseville Pottery Wincraft Hanging Basket Green 261-6

Roseville Pottery Wincraft Hanging Basket Green 261-6

 $275.00 1h 12m
BLUE RIDGE POTTERY 2 TIER CRAB APPLE TIDBIT TRAY PLATE

BLUE RIDGE POTTERY 2 TIER CRAB APPLE TIDBIT TRAY PLATE

 5 $21.59 1h 12m
Artist Signed Hand Made Huge Art Pottery Bowl

Artist Signed Hand Made Huge Art Pottery Bowl

 $108.75 1h 28m
Artist Signed Hand Made Southwestern Pottery Bowl

Artist Signed Hand Made Southwestern Pottery Bowl

 $71.25 1h 28m
Vintage Padilla Signed Art Pottery Abstract Modern Vase

Vintage Padilla Signed Art Pottery Abstract Modern Vase

 $71.25 1h 28m
LARGE HAND PAINTED POTTERY VASE URN

LARGE HAND PAINTED POTTERY VASE URN

 1 $8.64 1h 29m
Ceramic Onion Keeper - Forest County Pottery

Ceramic Onion Keeper - Forest County Pottery

$17.99 1h 42m
Vintage Australian Pottery Figural Koala Money Box

Vintage Australian Pottery Figural Koala Money Box

 - $8.22 1h 46m
Lovely Vintage Australian Pottery Ash Tray ~ Butterfly

Lovely Vintage Australian Pottery Ash Tray ~ Butterfly

- $8.60 1h 50m
RED WING POTTERY TEAPOTwith ROSE DECOR

RED WING POTTERY TEAPOTwith ROSE DECOR

 - $0.99 1h 53m
2003 ROWE POTTERY WORKS BIRD HOUSE SIGNED

2003 ROWE POTTERY WORKS BIRD HOUSE SIGNED

 6 $36.00 2h 1m
CM Bergen 825 Art Deco Pottery Pitcher Vintage

CM Bergen 825 Art Deco Pottery Pitcher Vintage

 $71.25 2h 7m
Bauer Pottery Saucer Gray

Bauer Pottery Saucer Gray

 - $4.99 2h 7m
Eastgate Potteries Jug Posy Vase With Dog, c 1955

Eastgate Potteries Jug Posy Vase With Dog, c 1955

- $20.32 2h 26m
Large Retro West Germany Pottery Jug - Lava Drip Look

Large Retro West Germany Pottery Jug - Lava Drip Look

 1 $8.64 2h 31m
3 PIECES NORTH CAROLINA POTTERY SIGNED AND DATED

3 PIECES NORTH CAROLINA POTTERY SIGNED AND DATED

 - $9.99 2h 41m
TINY GALART POTTERY PINK AND BLUE APPLIED FLOWERS VASE

TINY GALART POTTERY PINK AND BLUE APPLIED FLOWERS VASE

 1 $10.38 2h 46m
VINTAGE AUSTRALIAN POTTERY REMUED KERRYL BEER MUG RARE

VINTAGE AUSTRALIAN POTTERY REMUED KERRYL BEER MUG RARE

 - $17.29 2h 48m
AUSTRALIAN POTTERY JJ CERAMICS SYDNEY SOUVENIR BOOT

AUSTRALIAN POTTERY JJ CERAMICS SYDNEY SOUVENIR BOOT

 2 $9.07 3h 3m
Australian Pottery*FLANNEL FLOWER* signed Bryce CARTER

Australian Pottery*FLANNEL FLOWER* signed Bryce CARTER

 17 $278.47 3h 3m

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.