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8 unusual facts about Pottery


Ariyankuppam

Various Roman artifacts, such as a large number of amphorae bearing the mark of Roman potter schools VIBII, CAMURI and ITTA, have been found at the site, supporting the view on an ancient trade between Rome and the ancient Tamil country.

Athirampuzha

According to Marco Polo Athiramkari was a trade center famous for Pottery, Cattle's, vegetable market (still exists) and clothes.

Ceramics

Pottery, the ceramic material which makes up potterywares

Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonović

Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonović (born 24 March 1953) is a Slovene poet, essayist, writer, editor and potter.

Rooibaardt

Rooibaardt uses a wide variety of sounds and instruments: classical, electric and bass guitars, violin, colongo, mbira, pan pipes, pennywhistle, harmonica, concertina, melodium, trumpet, keyboard, jaw harp, didgeridoo, saw, samplers, djembe and clay pots.

Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia

In September 2006, the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia opened on the grounds of the Sautee Nacoochee Center.

Seagrove, North Carolina

Seagrove is notable for its many potteries, and it is sometimes referred to as the "pottery capital of North Carolina", or pottery capital of the world.

Surendranagar city

Many SMEs & industry is also present, and is involved in such things as confectionery, ceramics, pharmaceuticals, engineering plastics and salt production.


Adrián Luis González

González lives and works in Metepec, State of Mexico, a town noted for its decorative pottery, especially Trees of Life and suns with faces as wall decorations.

Alamogordo Museum of History

It holds a bison trophy head, a collection of pottery from the La Luz Pottery Factory, and artifacts from prehistoric Native American tribes that were found in caves above Alamogordo.

Ancient Roman pottery

The latter technique was particularly popular at the East Gaulish workshops of Rheinzabern, and was also widely used on other pottery types.

Aprey Faience

Aprey Faïence is a name used for the painted, tin-glazed faience pottery produced at a glass-works at Aprey, France.

Bauer Pottery

In the television show The New Normal, Bryan and David's home is decorated with Bauer pottery, and they use Bauer ringware as their dinnerware.

Brew Masters

Dogfish Head is about to brew a batch of "Chateau Jiahu" a 9000 year-old recipe based on pottery jars recovered from a village in Central China.

Buckland Common

Fine examples of this pottery are to be found in the nearby Chequers Museum.

Carl Romanelli

Lamps, plates and pottery designed by him were issued by Maddux of California, Incolay Studios Metroluxas well as Metlox Pottery of California in Manhattan Beach.

Carlogie

Archaeological excavations at Carlogie prior to the A92 road improvements (1998–2000) revealed pottery fragments that were tentatively dated to the Late Neolithic period.

Carrigaline Pottery

Ng Eng Teng, the noted Singaporean Sculpture, worked in the mid-1960s at the Pottery as a designer of tiles, hollow-ware and tableware.

Cecil Harcourt Smith

It was under his directorship that the museum acquired the Salting collection, the Rodin sculptures (now transferred to the Tate Gallery), the Talbot Hughes collection of costumes, the Alma Tadema library, the Le Blon Korean pottery and the Pierpoint Morgan stained glass.

Chalcolithic Europe

1900 BC, the centre of the Beaker Pottery returns to Bohemia, while in Iberia we see a decentralization of the phenomenon, with centres in Portugal but also in Los Millares and Ciempozuelos.

Château de Salm

The area was the site of an important occupation throughout the 14th and 15th centuries (with foundry, metallurgy and pottery activities), without a doubt the after-effects of the acquisition by Jean de Salm of the lower valley of Bruche in 1366, from Mutzig to Schirmeck.

Coton Colors

Coton Colors is a pottery and giftware design and manufacturing company based in Tallahasee, Florida.

Croft-Y-Bwla

Finds also included charcoal, pieces of flint and pottery from both earlier and later Iron Age and Roman periods.

Émile Lessore

Emile painted a variety of ceramic pieces, many for the Wedgwood pottery company.

Fort Walton Mound

The Fort Walton Mound was probably built around 800 CE, although Charles H. Fairbanks who excavated the mound in 1960 believed it was built between 1500 and 1650 based on pottery sherds he uncovered and analyzed.

Frans Wildenhain

She and Frans then moved to Putten, Holland, where they set up a pottery workshop called Het Kruikje (Little Jug).

Great Temple of the Aten

Project leader Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Based on the coins and pottery we found, it appears to be a massive regional center that traded with Greece, Turkey and Libya."

Grueby Faience Company

The company was founded in Revere, Massachusetts, by William Henry Grueby (Boston 1867—New York 1925), who had been inspired by the matte glazes on French pottery and the refined simplicity of Japanese ceramics he had seen at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago the previous year, and the architect-designer William Graves.

The collection at Dartmouth College is catalogued by Montgomery, Grueby Pottery: A New England Arts and Crafts Venture : The William Curry Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1994.

Hatnub

The pottery, hieroglyph inscriptions and hieratic graffiti at the site show that it was in use intermittently from at least as early as the reign of Khufu until the Roman period (c. 2589 BC–AD 300).

Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom

Though it is unknown at what age he started on his travels, Vroom was born into a family of artists and began his career as a pottery (faience) painter and when his mother remarried, was no older than 19 when he rebelled against his stepfather who insisted he stick to pottery painting, by boarding a ship for Spain (Sevilla) and from thence via Livorno and Florence to Rome.

Hideaki Miyamura

Hideaki Miyamura (1955 - ) is a Japanese-born American potter working in Kensington, New Hampshire.

Hispano-Moresque ware

At least one authority, Alan Caiger-Smith, excludes this pottery from the term "Hispano-Moresque", but most who use the term at all use it to include Malaga and Andalucian wares from the Islamic period as well as the Valencian pottery.

History of Crete

Neolithic pottery is known from Knossos, Lera Cave and Gerani Cave.

Issey Miyake

He had a long friendship with Austrian-born pottery artist Dame Lucie Rie.

Kiln God

Kiln gods (or goddesses) originated in ancient times when pottery first came about in places like China and Egypt its not exactly clear.

Le Saix

Flat tiles, as well as fragments of pottery and coins dating back to the times of Maximinus Thrax provide evidence of the town's possible Roman origins.

Lermontovo Microdistrict

Molded bricks for the construction of the University of Königsberg's new campus came from a pottery factory near Charlottenburg.

Lisa Holt and Harlan Reano

Heard Museum Indian Fair & Market, 2011, 4 awards: Best of Classification in Pottery, First Place in traditional pottery, two Judge's Awards.

Madhyapur Thimi

It is famous for its pottery and cultural programs like Bisket jatra, Gai jatra and other dancing jatra.

Maqne

Another type of pottery found was a thin, yellow and brown washed type considered similar to the "Smeared Wash" type found by Robert John Braidwood at Amuq.

Max Krehan

In 1919, when the now-famous Bauhaus school of art and design began in nearby Weimar, its founder Walter Gropius established a workshop in production pottery, with the intention that it would be taught at a factory in Weimar.

Milton Keynes Hoard

The building had been destroyed by fire and 4th century pottery was found on a cobbled floor, along with various sherds from the 4th and 11th to 12th centuries, remnants of a 13th-century jug, glass and jet beads, and around 43 coins from Tetricus I (270–273) to Gratian (375–383).

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

Cases are devoted to Pueblo pottery, ranging from thousand year-old Anasazi bowls to contemporary works, including several pieces by the famed San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, and the silver and turquoise jewelry of Zuni, Navajo, Hopi and Santo Domingo artists.

Mumun pottery period

The Late Mumun-Early Iron age Neuk-do Island Shellmidden Site yielded a small number of iron objects, Lelang and Yayoi pottery, and other evidence showing that beginning in the Late Mumun, local societies were drawn into closer economic and political contact with the societies of the Late Zhou, Final Jōmon, and Early Yayoi.

Overbeck Sisters

A collection of Overbeck pottery was featured on the 2006 episode of the Antiques Roadshow from Houston, Texas.

Penydarren

Flavian pottery confirms the origin of the fort as a wooden structure, replaced in stone around AD 100, with the bath house located outside the fort's southern defences contemporary with the rebuilding.

Ping Shan Heritage Trail

Shiwan dragon-fish and pottery unicorns decorate the main ridges and roofs.

Pottery Lane

It was only with the building of the Hippodrome in 1837 by entrepreneur John Whyte, that the squalor of Pottery Lane was brought to London's attention.

Rookwood Pottery Company

Rookwood also produced pottery in the Japonism trend, after Storer invited Japanese artist Kitaro Shirayamadani to come to Cincinnati in 1887 to work for the company.

Sacrificial tripod

Tripod pottery have been part of the archaeological assemblage in China since the earliest Neolithic cultures of Cishan and Peiligang in the 7th and 8th millennium BC.

Sihor

Regionally, Sihor is all-time famous and known for its hills, their rock pattern, Gautameshwar Mahadev & Lake, Sihor's Festivals, Navnath Pilgrimage (Navnath Yatra) of Shiva Temples, Brahma Kund, 'Sihori Rajwadi Penda' (Peda or Chocolate Cake), old town's ascends and descends, walled city and fort, narrow lanes, Nana Sahib Peshwa and the 1857 revolt, its food and delicacy, Copper-ware & Brass-ware, Pottery, snuff manufacturing factories, Rolling Mills and Industrial Plants.

Studio pottery

European artists coming to the United States contributed to the public appreciation of pottery as art, and included Marguerite Wildenhain, Maija Grotell, Susi Singer and Gertrude and Otto Natzler.

Symposium

Symposiums often featured on Attic pottery and Richard Neer has argued that the chief function of Attic pottery was for use in the symposium.

Vieux Luxembourg

For Villeroy & Boch, that step was the establishment of a pottery in Audun-le-Tiche, Lorraine on April 1st, 1748 their first pattern, Vieux Luxembourg.

Wemyss Ware

The pottery took its name from the Wemyss family, titled incumbents of Wemyss Castle on the east coast of Fife, who were early and enthusiastic patrons of Nekola and Heron's ceramic creations.

Yi Sam-pyeong

He was then given to Taku Yasutoshi in the ruler of Taku in central Saga, where he started pottery but did not succeed.


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