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  2. Gnathia vases - Wikipedia

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    Kantharoi and bowls with painted-on handles are now the main shapes. Ribbing is still in use, as is the copious application of white paint, now with yellow added for shading. Unlike local red-figure pottery, South Italian Gnathia vases were also traded to other regions of the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas.

  3. Tankard - Wikipedia

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    A tankard is a form of drinkware consisting of a large, roughly cylindrical, drinking cup with a single handle. In recent centuries tankards were typically made of silver or pewter , but can be made of other materials, for example glass, wood, pottery , or boiled leather . [ 1 ]

  4. South Italian ancient Greek pottery - Wikipedia

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    Apulian potters, having a taste for the frilly and elaborate, take traditional forms such as the Panathenaic amphora, the oinochoe, the lekythos, attenuate their forms, exaggerate their flares, add volute handles, molded gorgoneia, affectionately dubbed "macaroons", and end up with extremely elegant new varieties of pottery which still fit ...

  5. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The pottery produced in Archaic and Classical Greece included at first black-figure pottery, yet other styles emerged such as red-figure pottery and the white ground technique. Styles such as West Slope Ware were characteristic of the subsequent Hellenistic period , which saw vase painting's decline.

  6. Stamnos - Wikipedia

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    A stamnos (plural stamnoi; adjective stamnoid) is a type of Greek pottery used to store liquids. [1] Stamnoi had a foot, wide mouths, [2] lids and handles on their shoulders. The earliest known examples come from archaic Laconia and Etruria, and they began to be manufactured in Athens around 530 BC. [1]

  7. Castleford Pottery - Wikipedia

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    The lids of the teapots are often either hinged, or slide out to the rear, the lid piece including a section of the "gallery" or border around the top hole in the pot. [ 7 ] Sowter & Co of Mexborough , South Yorkshire , and Chetham & Woolley of Longton, Staffordshire , in The Potteries , were two of the other potteries that made Castleford-type ...

  8. Jingdezhen porcelain - Wikipedia

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    A Qingbai porcelain bottle from Jingdezhen is the earliest piece of Chinese porcelain documented to have reached Europe; this is the Fonthill Vase, which was brought to Europe in the middle of the 14th century. [35] Under the Yuan dynasty, Jingdezhen's finest whitewares changed to Shufu ware, named after the two character inscription on some ...

  9. Stirrup spout vessel - Wikipedia

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    Chimú Stirrup Vessel, between 1100 and 1550. The Walters Art Museum.. A stirrup spout vessel (so called because of its resemblance to a stirrup) is a type of ceramic vessel common among several Pre-Columbian cultures of South America beginning in the early 2nd millennium BCE.