Search Results: Pottery

The base of a cup which shows graffito - an incised mark, usually in the form of letters or numbers but also sometimes words and phrases. When such marks are painted they are called dipinto. The marks may indicate prices, trademarks and ownership...

A Roman glazed pottery cup mimicking bronze work with leaf designs. 1st-2nd century CE. (Archaeological Musuem, Pavia, Italy)

This is a painted cream-ware pottery bowl. It was reconstructed from fragments and has a rounded base, The interior was painted with brown vine stems and leaves. The exterior surface was painted with leaf motifs between parallel sets...

Pottery Dining & Serving Vessels, 9th-6th Century BCE, Arad. Israel Museum

Pre-Columbian Pottery, Jade Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica,

The Longshan culture (aka Lung-shan) flourished in parts of late Neolithic northeast China during the third millennium BCE and was an important link in the development of Chinese civilisation from the independent neolithic communities to...

The Salado culture is a term used by historians and archaeologists to describe a pre-Columbian Southwestern culture that flourished from c. 1200-1450 CE in the Tonto Basin of what is now the southern parts of the present-day US states of...

These ancient ceramics are decorated with cord markings. They gave the Jomon period, (13,00-500 BCE) its name; Jomon means "cord-marked". A stick was wrapped with braided cord and then rolled over the surface of the vessels to decorate them...

Ancient Korean pottery and ceramics are discussed in detail across kingdoms and time periods while explaining the intricacies of different types of pottery designs and forms.

This Hohokam pottery bowl is made from clay and painted with red glaze. It dates from c. 1000-1200 CE, and came from what is present-day Arizona in the United States. Hohokam pottery tends to be constructed of buff or light brown clay, and...