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2. Newcomb Pottery - Wikipedia

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   Newcomb Pottery, also called Newcomb College Pottery, was a brand of American Arts & Crafts pottery produced from 1895 to 1940. [1] The company grew out of the pottery program at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College , the women's college now associated with Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana .

3. Ceramic art - Wikipedia

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   Stoneware is a vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay or non-refractory fire clay. [10] Stoneware is fired at high temperatures. [11] Vitrified or not, it is nonporous; [12] it may or may not be glazed.

4. Pottery - Wikipedia

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   Because pottery is so durable, pottery and shards of pottery survive for millennia at archaeological sites, and are typically the most common and important type of artifact to survive. Many prehistoric cultures are named after the pottery that is the easiest way to identify their sites, and archaeologists develop the ability to recognise ...

5. Bovey Tracey Potteries - Wikipedia

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   The pottery was well known for Mess Ware commissioned for use on Naval Ships, as well as presentation mugs and clotted cream jars. The pottery continued to run successfully until 1885 when it was taken over by new management and saw a steady decline until worker strikes led to the eventual closure in 1894.

6. Mug - Wikipedia

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   For example, a rather advanced, decorated clay mug from 4000 to 5000 BCE was found in Greece. [6] Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) mugs from SW Colorado, made between 1000 and 1280 CE. The meaning of the carving in the handles is as yet unknown, but it is probably not functional. The biggest disadvantage of those clay mugs was thick walls unfit for ...

7. Ceramic forming techniques - Wikipedia

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   Pottery techniques include the potter's wheel, slip casting and many others. Methods for forming powders of ceramic raw materials into complex shapes are desirable in many areas of technology. For example, such methods are required for producing advanced, high-temperature structural parts such as heat engine components, recuperators and the ...