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Painterly Ceramics in Classical Athens and Renaissance Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

W. David Kingery
W. David Kingery*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of AnthropologyUniversity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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Abstract

Fired clay vessels began to be produced in the Near East about 8,000 years ago; these vessels were utilitarian, undecorated, fired at a relatively low temperature and seem to have been derived from brick-making practices. By about 6,000 B.C., pottery making was a well developed craft and the use of slip coatings, ocher red and black decoration with control of oxidation-reduction during firing, impressed designs, rouletting, manganese oxide and spinel black pigments, coil and slab construction, burnishing, joining, paddle and anvil shaping, carving, trimming and preparing clays by decanting a suspension were widely known [1]. By the fifth millennium, these techniques had become quite sophisticated and were used to produce polychrome wares and glossy surfaces. Painted and glazed designs were confined to decorative motifs appropriate to a particular technique and culture.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 185: Symposium G – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology II , 1990 , 375
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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