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A Chicken Cup is a bowl-shaped vessel made of Chinese porcelain painted in the doucai technique. Chicken cups were created during the Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644), during the Chenghua Emperor's reign (1465 – 1487) in China, and originally functioned as a vessel to drink wine from.
A dough trough from Aberdour Castle, Fife, Scotland. A kneading trough is a term for the vessel in which dough, after being mixed and leavened was left to swell or ferment. The first citation of kneading-trough in the Oxford English Dictionary is Chaucer, The Miller's Tale, 1386. Flour was not stored, perhaps for fear of insect infestation, but ...
Trough zithers are a group of African stringed instruments or chordophones whose members resemble wooden bowls, pans, platters, or shallow gutters with strings stretched across the opening. [2] A type of zither , the instruments may be quiet, depending upon the shape of the bowl or string-holder.
A bowl made around 900 years ago has just fetched $38 million at auction, setting a new record for Chinese porcelain. The antique Chinese bowl was made around 900 years ago during the Song Dynasty ...
Then, the pot was painted, inscribed, or slipped. The last step was the firing of the vessel. Kilns were used to fire the vessels, and they were normally found outside in the open air. Unlike many modern kilns, they were fired by wood, charcoal, or even grass. Like the Ancient Greeks, the Maya created clay slips from a mixture of clays and ...
Wooden trencher from Västergötland, Sweden, mid-17th century A modern cheeseboard A trencher (from Old French trancher 'to cut') is a type of tableware , commonly used in medieval cuisine . A trencher was originally a flat round of (usually stale ) bread used as a plate , upon which the food could be placed to eat. [ 1 ]
Red gloss terra sigillata ware with relief decoration. Compare the plain unglossed restored section to the left. The designation 'fine wares' is used by archaeologists for Roman pottery intended for serving food and drink at table, as opposed to those designed for cooking and food preparation, storage, transport and other purposes.
In November 1884, van Gogh taught some friends from Eindhoven, a large town near Nuenen, to paint inanimate objects in oil. Van Gogh, in his enthusiasm, created a series of still life paintings of bottles, bowls and pots and other objects. [3] When van Gogh created still life paintings he was able to explore light and its effect on colors.