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A large Kvevri held at the Georgian National Museum of Tbilisi. Kvevri or Qvevri (Georgian: ქვევრი [ˈkʰvɛvɾi]) - also known as Ch'uri (Georgian: ჭური [ˈtʃʼuɾi]) in Western Georgia - are large earthenware vessels used for the fermentation, storage and aging of traditional Georgian wine.
The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey.It is typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used.
At a Greek symposium, kraters were placed in the center of the room.They were quite large, so they were not easily portable when filled. Thus, the wine-water mixture would be withdrawn from the krater with other vessels, such as a kyathos (pl.: kyathoi), an amphora (pl.: amphorai), [1] or a kylix (pl.: kylikes). [1]
The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Medieval Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, [1] oil or honey. Typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used. [2] The modern tun is about 954 litres.
Freer Gallery of Art Hu wine vessel of Song, Western Zhou period, late 9th century BC，National Palace Museum, Taiwan. Huixian Bronze Hu at the British Museum Bianhu with geometric decoration. Warring States period, c. 3rd century BCE. Freer Gallery of Art. A hu is a type of wine vessel that has a pear-shaped cross-section. Its body swells and ...
As Gisela Richter puts it, the forms of these vases (by convention the term "vase" has a very broad meaning in the field, covering anything that is a vessel of some sort) find their "happiest expression" in the 5th and 6th centuries BC, yet it has been possible to date vases thanks to the variation in a form’s shape over time, a fact ...
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Kingston valves of the Argonaute can be seen on her keel. A Kingston valve is a type of valve fitted in the bottom of a ship's plating [1] that connects the sea to the ship's piping and storage tanks. A Kingston valve is a type of seacock. [1] It is arranged so that, under normal operating conditions, sea pressure keeps the valve closed. [2]