Stoneware

Distinctive pottery that has been fired at a high temperature (about 1,200 C / 2,200 F) until glasslike and impervious to liquid). Usually opaque, but mainly because it is nonporous, it does not require a glaze. When a glaze is used, it is decorative only. Stoneware originated in China as early a...

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Stoneware

Upchurch Ware

Romano-British pottery industry making polished and burnished black and grey wares (e.g. poppy head beakers) in the Upchurch Marshes of Kent in southeastern England.

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Upchurch Ware

Gnathian Ware

A pottery fabric of the Hellenistic period (4th-3rd centuries BC) in southern Italy. Produced originally at Apulia, the pots are decorated with a black-glossed technique with simple designs in yellow and white. It is the western equivalent of West Slope ware. It is unlike other south Italian pott...

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Gnathian Ware

Severn Valley Ware

Burnished wares mainly in the form of bowls, jars, and tankards in a color range from creamy-buff to orange-red made at various centers along the Severn. Kiln sites are known at Malvern and Shepton Mallet, Somerset. It was at one time known as Glevum ware, since it was first recognized at Glouces...

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Severn Valley Ware

Dales Ware

Coarse shell-gritted hand-made cooking pots, probably made near the confluence of the rivers Trent and Humber from the mid 2nd century AD onwards. The fabric is hard and coarse with a smooth but unpolished surface, grey, black, or brown in color. The body of the clay contains small fragments of w...

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Dales Ware

Kian Ware

A white ware made at Yung-ho near Kian/Chi-an in Kiangsi that was often in the form of bowls decorated with leaves, medallions, birds, or plants. It could be black-glazed and was made during the Sung Dynasty (960-1279 AD). This ware appears to be an imitation of Ting.

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Kian Ware

Caldron

A large metal pot, used for cooking over an open fire

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Caldron

Mortlake 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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Mortlake Ware

Romano-Saxon Ware

This term is used both of wheel-made Roman pottery in coarse or color-coated fabrics with stamped or bossed decoration resembling that on many hand-made Saxon vessels, and of hand-made Saxon pottery imitating Roman forms. It is found mainly in eastern England. The former class belongs to the late...

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Romano-Saxon Ware

Portchester Ware

Type of late Saxon pottery manufactured on the coast of central southern England.

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Portchester Ware

Oxfordshire Ware

Pottery made mostly in the vicinity of Oxford in a variety of fabrics. Vessels include distinctive types of mortaria, PARCHMENT WARE, and red color-coated ware in the Samian tradition. This centrally placed industry became one of the largest and most important in Britain during the 4th century AD.

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Oxfordshire Ware

Chün Ware

A Chinese stoneware of the Northern Sung period (960-1126 AD) with a pale blue opalescent or translucent green glaze, at the kilns near Lin-ju-hsien and at Kung-hsien in Honan province in China. Another well-known class has a red or flambé glaze and consists of flowerpots, bulb bowls, elegant sha...

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Chün Ware

Impressed Decoration

A type of pottery decoration produced by pressing something into the surface of the clay when still soft. Stamped decoration is a special form of this, in which a stick or bone is previously carved to give the impression its design. Intermediate in form are the impressions of natural objects like...

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Impressed Decoration

Lyon Ware

Fine color-coated cups and beakers with rough-cast appliqué or rusticated decoration. Made at Lyon in France, and imported to other parts of the Roman empire (mainly for military markets) from c. AD 43 through to c. AD 70.

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Lyon Ware

Canaanite Amphora

Common transport vessel of the Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. Canaanite amphoras average 30 inches in height and have a short, relatively narrow flaring mouth, a wide shoulder with two handles on it, and a tapering profile running down to a narrow pointed base. They were made in va...

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Canaanite Amphora

African Red Slip Ware

Hollow Ware

Cups, jugs, bowls, etc; serving dishes and accessories, esp. of silver, that are hollow or concave; hollow articles of cookware or crockery

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Hollow Ware

Grass-Tempered Ware

Pottery embodying chopped grass or straw in its fabric as a tempering agent. Grass-tempered wares are well represented amongst pagan Saxon communities of the immediate post-Roman period in southern and eastern England; indeed the presence of such pottery is the basis upon which sites of the perio...

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Grass-Tempered Ware

Cardial Ware

An impressed ware of the Early Neolithic in the western Mediterranean (Sardinia, Corsica, Liguria, Provence, and Spain). Soft clay was impressed with the serrated edge of the cardium (cockle) shell, from which it received its name.

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Cardial Ware

Derbyshire Ware

A distinctive type of pottery produced in Derbyshire from the mid 2nd century AD through to the 4th century AD. It is hard and gritty with a surface that is sometimes described as being like ?petrified gooseflesh'. color varies from grey and light-brown to red. The surface texture is due to the p...

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Derbyshire Ware

Tustrup

Neolithic mortuary house in a megalithic tomb cemetery in Jutland, Denmark, c 2900 BC. Highly decorated pottery vessels accompanied the burial.

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Tustrup

Celadon Ware

A type of Chinese pottery with a pale green glaze - either porcelain or stoneware. It was the earliest tinted Chinese pottery, dating from the Sung Dynasty of 960-1279 AD. The main kilns were in Yao-chou in Shensi province, Lin-ju in Honan province, Li-shui, and Lung-ch'uan in Chekiang province.

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Celadon Ware

Malvernian Ware

A pottery industry based around the Malvern Hills in west central England. The earliest production dates to the middle Bronze Age, but from the mid 1st millennium BC onwards the industry produced a range of very coarse, handmade, simple jars. They were distributed over considerable distances, par...

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Malvernian Ware

Pontic Ware

Black-figured pottery made in Etruria during the Archaic period, possibly influenced by techniques of Attica, Corinth, and Ionia.

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Pontic Ware

Banshan Pottery

Site of a Neolithic cemetery in the Tao River valley of china, the type site of the Banshan (or Pan-shan) culture which belongs to the western or Gansu branch of the Yangshao Neolithic. Banshan is best known for its painted pottery first found in a grave in 1923. Pan-shan ware is generally consid...

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Banshan Pottery

Globular Amphora

A type of pottery vessel which has given its name to a Late Neolithic or Copper Age culture of the 3rd millennium BC through much of Germany, Poland, and western Russia. The amphora itself is bulbous in shape with a narrow neck and small handles (for hanging) and appeared with the eastern wing of...

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