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2. Pueblo pottery - Wikipedia

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   The Tewa potters at this time covered their vessels in cream-colored slip, and painted designs in black glaze, producing pottery with a finer, more precise line quality. After the Spanish reconquered the area in 1692, essentially all of the pueblos stopped producing glazed ware, and instead began producing a matte finished ware using vegetal ...

3. Mexican ceramics - Wikipedia

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   This ware is painted before firing, glazed, and then fired again. It is very labor-intensive and rare, and is mostly used on platters. A giant urn in this style can take up to three years to complete. [49] [51] Canelo is named after the color of the fired pottery, which is various shades of cinnamon (canela in Spanish). It is popular and used ...

4. Mexican handcrafts and folk art - Wikipedia

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   Wood and fiber crafts for sale at the municipal market in Pátzcuaro. Dolls made of cartonería from the Miss Lupita project.. Mexican handcrafts and folk art is a complex collection of items made with various materials and fashioned for utilitarian, decorative or other purposes, such as wall hangings, vases, toys and items created for celebrations, festivities and religious rites. [1]

5. Tin-glazed pottery - Wikipedia

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   Maiolica charger from Faenza, after which faience is named, c. 1555; diameter 43 cm, tin-glazed earthenware Tin-glazed (majolica/maiolica) plate from Faenza, Italy. Tin-glazed pottery is earthenware covered in lead glaze with added tin oxide [1] which is white, shiny and opaque (see tin-glazing for the chemistry); usually this provides a background for brightly painted decoration.

6. Mata Ortiz pottery - Wikipedia

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   After painting, the pots are fired on open ground or in pit ovens. Two or three small pots may be fired together, but larger ones are fired individually. They are set on a pile of dried cow dung and wood and if fired on open ground, covered with a large overturned pot called a “saggar.” [ 4 ] [ 6 ] For polychrome pots, air is allowed to ...

7. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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   Nasca artists created ceremonial and utilitarian bowls and beakers, effigy jars, panpipes, and vessels of new designs, including the stepped-fret. These combined sculptural elements with surface painting, often with curvilinear designs emphasized by bold, black outlining. Painters used revolving turntables to paint all sides of a ceramic piece ...