glazed pottery

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• Tin-glazed pottery — is pottery covered in glaze containing tin oxide which is white, shiny and opaque. (See tin glazing.) The pottery body is usually made of red or buff colored earthenware and the white glaze was often used to imitate Chinese porcelain. Tin glazed… …   Wikipedia

• POTTERY — appears for the first time in the Neolithic period, around the middle of the sixth millennium B.C.E. For two reasons, it serves as a major tool for the archaeological study of the material culture of ancient man: first because of its extensive… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• BLACK GLAZED POTTERY, ETRUSCAN (CERAMICA A VERNICE NERA) —    A type of black coated pottery produced from the fourth century BC onward, otherwise variously known as Campanian or vernice nera. It consists of a beige or reddish clay covered with black coat (or, loosely, a glaze). The pottery has precisely …   Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans

• pottery — /pot euh ree/, n., pl. potteries. 1. ceramic ware, esp. earthenware and stoneware. 2. the art or business of a potter; ceramics. 3. a place where earthen pots or vessels are made. [1475 85; POTTER1 + Y3] * * * I One of the oldest and most… …   Universalium

• glazed — [[t]gle͟ɪzd[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe someone s eyes as glazed, you mean that their expression is dull or dreamy, usually because they are tired or are having difficulty concentrating on something. Doctors with glazed eyes sat …   English dictionary

• POTTERY —    Pottery found in Etruria is generally defined technologically and artistically into a number of distinct forms: coarse pottery or impasto, fine black burnished and heavily reduced (deprived of oxygen in the kiln) bucchero, and black glazed and …   Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans

• Pottery — Pot ter*y, n.; pl. {Potteries}. [F. poterie, fr. pot. See {Pot}.] 1. The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked. [1913 Webster] 2. The place where earthen vessels are made. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Iranian pottery — Pottery vessel, fourth millennium B.C. The Sialk collection of Tehran s National Museum of Iran …   Wikipedia

• Pottery — Pot and Pots redirect here. For Pot, see Pot (disambiguation). For POTS, see POTS (disambiguation). Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum …   Wikipedia

• pottery — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ glazed ▪ fine (esp. BrE) … OF POTTERY ▪ fragment (esp. BrE), piece, shard ▪ shards of I …   Collocations dictionary

• pottery —    Spain has a very long tradition of ceramic crafts, producing earthenware, decorative tiles and fine porcelain, often with distinctive regional variations.    Potteries were already flourishing in Castile, Aragon, Catalonia, Andalusia and… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture