Scarlet Ware

A type of red-and-black painted pottery used in the early 3rd millennium BC in the plains of eastern Mesopotamia, of the Early Dynastic period. It was derived from Jemdet Nasr Ware. Geometrical designs in black on buff, separated by large areas of red paint, became progressively more elaborate, i...

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Scarlet Ware

Elers Ware

Unglazed smooth-surfaced red stoneware attributed to David and John Elers.

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Elers Ware

Pevensey Ware

The products of a small local factory near Pevensey, Sussex, which made imitations of Oxfordshire and New Forest type pottery in a very hard orange-red fabric and a deep red color coat.

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Pevensey Ware

Varnished Ware

Pottery, usually small bowls, decorated with rough-cast scales or roundels, or rough-cast beakers in white fabric with greenish-brown shiny slip. Generally 1st century BC/AD in date and produced in central Gaul and on the Rhine.

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Varnished Ware

Parisian Ware

A thin, dark grey, highly burnished ware decorated with impressed stamps and found mainly in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, dating to the late 1st and the 2nd centuries AD

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Parisian Ware

Redware

Earthenware pottery made of clay containing considerable iron oxide.

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Redware

Minyan Ware

A distinctive Middle Helladic pottery - a gray or yellow wheelmade ware of high quality first appearing at Troy VI and in Greece c 19th century BC. It was the first wheelmade pottery to be produced in Middle Bronze Age Greece. It was ancestral to Mycenaean pottery, and may represent a movement of...

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Minyan Ware

Thetford Ware

Mass-produced wheel-turned late Saxon pottery manufactured in workshops near Thetford in Norfolk, England, from the late 9th century through to the early 12th century. The fabric is hard and sandy, grey to buff in color. The products are mainly cooking pits and jars with limited rouletting and ap...

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Thetford Ware

Banpo

The site of an early Yangshao Neolithic village, now a museum at Xi'an, China, in the basin of the confluence of the Yellow River (Huang Ho), the Fen Ho, and Kuei Shui. Radiocarbon dates range from c 4800-4300 BC. The settlement was about 50,000 sq. meters and included a cemetery and pottery kiln...

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Banpo

Miraflores

A complex of cultural materials which define a phase from 100 BC to 200 AD of Highland Mayan sites in the Late Pre-Classic period. It is the Late Formative period of the Valley of Guatemala. Characteristic artifacts include engraved soft stone and monochrome ceramic vessels, as well as 'mushroom ...

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Miraflores

Urfirnis

Characteristic ware of the Middle Neolithic and Early Helladic periods of Greece and also the name of the glaze-like paint. The pottery has a buff fabric decorated with a dark lustrous slip or glaze. The sauce-boat and the askos are the most notable shapes.

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Urfirnis

Hadra Ware

A kind of Hellenistic pottery first found in the Hadra cemetery at Alexandria. It was a burial container inscribed with the name of the deceased and often the date painted or incised on the shoulder.

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Hadra Ware

New Forest Ware

One of the pottery wares of southern Roman Britain in the late 3rd-4th centuries AD, produced by craftsmen in the New Forest area. Decoration is scarce, consisting of white slipped scrolls or rosette stamps or stamped-on designs. Vessel shapes included cups, flagons, and mortaria. It was of two k...

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New Forest Ware

Chalcidian Ware

Black-figured pottery found in Etruria and the Chalcidian colony of Rhegium (modern Reggio) in Italy. The style included lettering of the inscriptions as part of the decoration.

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Chalcidian Ware

Chiozza

A Neolithic settlement site in Emilia in northern Italy, of the later 5th or early 4th millennium BC. Structural remains are oval and circular pits. The pottery was square-mouthed and the term Chiozza is sometimes used for this type of pottery or its latter phase.

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Chiozza

Pearlware

A form of earthenware, developed by Wedgwood (1775-79) as a whiter version of its creamware body. A greater quantity of white clay was used in the body and the transparent lead glaze included traces of cobalt, giving the surface a pearly white appearance. It was soon adopted by other potteries, s...

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Pearlware

Trimming

Cutting material away from the surface of a leather-hard pottery vessel with a tool, such as a lithic flake held at an acute angle to the vessel surface, to removed traces of the seam.

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Trimming

Belgic Pottery

General term, now almost obsolete, sometimes applied to the range of late Iron Age wheel-turned pottery vessels found in southeastern England, especially Aylesford-Swarling pottery, even though this is too late to be directly related to Belgic settlement from the continent.

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Belgic Pottery

Gray Ware

The typical household and ceremonial ceramic ware of Monte Albán and the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, made from a fine gray paste in the middle Pre-Classic period. Grey ware occurs throughout Monte Albán's occupation, with some variations in shape and ornamentation. In the latter periods in the Oaxa...

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Gray Ware

Knapton Ware

Type of crude hand-made pottery dating to the 4th century AD. Manufactured and circulated in the Humberside area of northeastern England.

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Knapton Ware

Parchment Ware

A range of tableware, mostly bowls, in pale fabrics with simple red-brown painted decoration that was popular in Britain in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.

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Parchment Ware

Acratophorum

A Greek and Roman table vessel for holding pure wine, as opposed to the crater which held wine mixed with water. This vessel was often made of earthenware and metal, though some were gold or silver.

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Acratophorum

Shindo

A small spur projecting into the valley of the Kyi Chu River near Lhasa, Tibet. Three phases have been distinguished. Horizon A had flexed burials in rock-cut pits, accompanied by crude, handmade pottery but no metalwork. Horizon B contained two flexed burials in rock-cut pits with much finer han...

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Shindo

Yellowware

Pottery made from buff clay and covered with a yellowish transparent clay.

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Yellowware

Pygmy Cup

Small ceramic vessel in a range of shapes, but typically less than 50mm high, found in early Bronze Age burials in northwestern Europe, usually in association with an urn of some kind. Also called incense cups and accessory vessels.

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Pygmy Cup