Cistercian Ware

A lead-glazed English earthenware of the 15th-16th centuries. The earthenware is dark red with a black or brown metallic-appearing glaze and was called Cistercian because they were first excavated at Yorkshire Cistercian abbeys. The pottery forms were mainly drinking vessels, tall mugs, trumpet-s...

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Cistercian Ware

Corded Ware

A Late Neolithic pottery ware decorated with twisted cord ornament found over much of north and central Europe in the 2nd half of the 3rd millennium BC. The commonest shapes are the beaker and the globular amphora. The ware is always associated with primitive agriculture, the stone battle ax, and...

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Corded Ware

Lachish

Palestinian Biblical site which was a Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age cave dwelling, after which the caves were used for burials and a settlement founded. A massive plastered glacis of Hyksos type belonged to the Middle Bronze Age settlement, but was destroyed by the Egyptians c 1580 BC. The Ca...

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Lachish

Northampton Ware

Type of late Saxon pottery found in the midlands of England from the period c. AD 850 to 1150.

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Northampton Ware

London Ware

A type of pottery with a relatively fine burnished grey or black fabric, often imitating various forms of Samian bowls, and often decorated with inscribed lines, impressed stamps, rouletting and compass-scribed circles. Made in the Thames Estuary area, Suffolk, Hertfordshire, and the Nene Valley ...

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London Ware

Bouffioulx Stoneware

The Bouffioulx region has been producing ceramics for almost 500 years. Many artists contributed to the revival of the Bouffioulx genre in the first part of the 20th century when producing hand thrown stoneware art works known today as the "Grès d'art" of Bouffioulx.

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Bouffioulx Stoneware

Saintonge Ware

Major pottery industry in the region of Saintes in western France from the 13th century until recent times. The best-known of these wares are the tall jugs with polychrome glazed decoration which appear to have been traded with western French wine to the English. The jugs exported were only one o...

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Saintonge Ware

Fengate Ware

A family of elaborately decorated Neolithic ceramics found in southern and eastern parts of the British Isles. Dating to the period 3000 to 2000 BC, Isobel Smith divided Peterborough wares into three successive styles-Ebbsfleet, Mortlake, and Fengate-on the basis of their occurrence in the ditch ...

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Fengate Ware

Pitted-Ware Culture

In Sweden and Finland, a series of foraging groups during the 3rd-1st millennia BC, part of the circumpolar complex of Holocene foragers. Amber ornaments were made widely and communities depended on seals and pigs for subsistence.

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Pitted-Ware Culture

Lapita

A major Oceanic culture complex, named after the type site of Lapita, New Caledonia. It is defined by a distinctive type of pottery with dentate-stamped banded decoration in geometric patterns, appearing c 3500 bp and which appeared throughout much of the western Pacific, including Fiji and Samoa...

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Lapita

Khirbet Kerak

A Palestinian site on the southwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, settled from the Early-Middle Bronze Age and occupied again from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods. In the 4th-3rd millennia BC, it was a small walled town which lent its name to a distinctive pottery ware (Khirbet Kerak ware...

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Khirbet Kerak

Tana Ware

Pottery of early Swahili communities of the late 1st millennium AD, found from the Lamu Archipelago off the Kenyan coast as far south as Vilanculos Bay in Mozambique, as well as on the islands of Zanzibar, Pemba, Comoros, and Madagascar.

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Tana Ware

Kuan Ware

Fine Chinese stoneware of the Sung dynasty, 960-1279 AD, characterized by a wash of brown slip and by glazes varying from pale green to lavender blue. A wide-meshed crackle is brought out by the application of brown pigment. First made in North China, Kuan ware was produced from about 1127 at Han...

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Kuan Ware

Earthenware

Ceramics fired at temperatures high enough for vitrification to begin.

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Earthenware

Nderit Ware

First discovered at Stable's Drift on the Nderit River, south of Lake Nakuru in the central Rift Valley of Kenya, Nderit ware is a widespread variety of pottery which may predate the florescence of the Pastoral Neolithic in the area. It is one of several distinct pottery wares associated with the...

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Nderit Ware

Hembury Ware

Style of plain early and middle Neolithic pottery found in southwestern England during the 4th millennium BC. Named after the Neolithic enclosure site of Hembury in Devon, Hembury ware is characterized by round-bottomed vessels with straight sides or S-profiled bodies.

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Hembury Ware

Achzib Ware

A Phoenician, Iron Age II, red slip pottery type consisting primarily of jugs with trefoil mouth-of-mushroom rims red slipped and highly burnished.

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Achzib Ware

Samian Ware

A distinctive Roman pottery produced mainly in south and central Gaul and the Moselle valley in the first century BC and first three centuries AD; later it was made in Britain (Colchester). It was copied from Italian Arretine ware and was itself widely imitated. It is a red ware with a bright glo...

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Samian Ware

Rocker Pattern

A type of pottery decoration in which a straight or curved edge is moved across the soft clay by pivoting on alternate corners, the result being a zigzag of curved lines. The technique was discovered and employed in a number of different times and places - the Neolithic impressed ware of central ...

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Rocker Pattern

Megarian Bowl

A handleless hemispherical Greek drinking cup made in molds and often decorated in relief and finished in the black-glossed technique. Widespread in the Hellenistic period from the 3rd century Be, they developed into the red-glossed Arrentine wares. The type was first recognized at Megara and was...

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Megarian Bowl

Megara kaseleri, kalıplar kullanılarak yapılmış ve genellikle kabartmalar ile dekore edilmiş ve siyah firniz teknikle bitirilmiş, kulpsuz yarım küre şeklindeki Antik Yunan içki içme kaplarıdır. Kalıp yapımı kaseler olarak da geçmektedir.

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Megarian Bowl

Terra Sigillata

MÖ 1. yüzyıldan MS 3. yüzyıla değin Roma imparatorluğunun her yerinde kullanılan parlak kırmızı renkli, cilalı çanak çömlek. Üstüne desen basılmış kilden kap anlamına gelir. Bu teknikle yapılmış ürünlere Sisam işi ya da Arretium işi de denir. Ama bu kapların gerçekte Sisam Adasıyla hiçbir ilişkis...

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Terra Sigillata

[Latin: 'earthenware with relief figures']. Now a general and compendious term for glossy red table ware of the Roman imperial period. Terra sigillata is essentially a mould-made pottery, with both plain and relief-decorated examples. Geographic distribution is widespread, with several varieties ...

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Terra Sigillata

Pelike

Su, yağ ve şarap depolamada kullanılan kap türlerinden biri. Amfora benzeri geniş ağızlı, iki düşey ilmek kulplu ve alçak ayaklı olan pelikenin amphoradan farkı, boyunsuz olmasıdır. Yüksekliği 10-60 cm arasında örnekleri bulunan pelikede boyun bölümü, armut biçimli gövdenin uzantısı olarak biçiml...

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Pelike

In Greek antiquity, a large wine container with two vertical handles -- a type of amphora where the greatest diameter was below mid-point. It was probably used at a symposium.

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Pelike

Kylix

Şarap içmek içirı kullanılan kap türlerinden biri. Farklı tipleri olan kylikslerin temel özelliği alçak ve yayvan gövdenin bir ayaküstüne oturması ve yukarı doğru kıvrılan iki ilmek kulpu bulunmasıdır. Alçak ayaklı olanlar ayaksız kyliks olarak anılır. Miken döneminden Klasik Dönemin sonuna değin...

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Kylix

A Greek stemmed drinking cup or chalice, usually made of clay or metal. The term was originally used for a cup of any form, but modem scholars restrict it to shallow twohanded stemmed forms. This wide-bowled drinking cup with horizontal handles was one of the most popular pottery forms from Mycen...

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Kylix

[Greek 'cup'; cf chalice]. An ancient Greek drinking vessel. The term was originally used for a cup of any form, but modern scholars restrict it to shallow two-handed stemmed forms.

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