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A plate is a broad, mainly flat vessel on which food can be served. [1] A plate can also be used for ceremonial or decorative purposes. Most plates are circular, but they may be any shape, or made of any water-resistant material. Generally plates are raised round the edges, either by a curving up, or a wider lip or raised portion.
The pilaster used in this technique could by a bowl, plate, basket, mat, textile, or even a pottery sherd. This pilaster was rotated along with the vessel, as the potter shaped it. The rotation technique was used only for the creation of the vessel's shell. The earlier techniques were also used for other parts of the manufacturing process.
Typology of Greek vase shapes. A Nolan amphora, a type with a longer and narrower neck than usual, from Nola. Attic komast cup, a variety of kylix, Louvre. Diagram of the parts of a typical Athenian vase, in this case a volute krater. The pottery of ancient Greece has a long history and the form of Greek vase shapes has had a continuous ...
Puttu kutti – A hemispherical or cylindrical metallic vessel used in South India to make puttu or steamed rice cake. Siru – an earthenware steamer used to steam grain or grain flour dishes such as tteok (rice cakes). [32][33] Dim sum in a food steamer. A couscoussier, a type of steamer used to cook couscous.
A welded steel pressure vessel constructed as a horizontal cylinder with domed ends. An access cover can be seen at one end, and a drain valve at the bottom centre. A pressure vessel is a container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure. Construction methods and materials may be chosen ...
A fish plate is a Greek pottery vessel used by western, Hellenistic Greeks during the fourth century BC. Although invented in fifth-century BC Athens, most of the corpus of surviving painted fish plates originate in Southern Italy, where fourth-century BC Greek settlers, called " Italiotes," manufactured them.
This is a torispherical head also named Semi ellipsoidal head (According to DIN 28013). The radius of the dish is 80% of the diameter of the cylinder ( ). The radius of the knuckle is ( ). Also other sizes are , rest of height ( ) . This shape [6] finds its origin in architecture; see Korbbogen, architectural information.
Hull (watercraft) A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat. The hull may open at the top (such as a dinghy), or it may be fully or partially covered with a deck. Atop the deck may be a deckhouse and other superstructures, such as a funnel, derrick, or mast. The line where the hull meets the water surface is ...