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Ancient Mesoamerican pottery is one of the most significant and diverse aspects of the region’s cultural and artistic heritage. Its forms, styles, and functions vary widely across time and geographic location, yet the art of pottery production played a crucial role in both daily life and ceremonial practices for the Mesoamerican peoples.
Pottery that has been buried, such as from an archaeological site, is better stored at a constant low humidity. This will help to keep any salts from efflorescing, a process which can mar the surface as well as remove the surface glaze. [5] In general ceramics are typically inert and are not sensitive to elevated light levels.
This technique, often called "primitive firing" is a process in which a potter employs the use of a handmade raku kiln. This practice includes the firing of clay works, called raku ware, at extremely hot temperatures for prolonged periods of time. This process allows for a sense of "artistic closeness" between the artist and the works. [5]
Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung is considered to be one of the "most significant centres of early habitation and ceremonial burial in Canada," is located on the north side Rainy River in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It became part of a continent-wide trading network because of its strategic location at the centre of major North American waterways.
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery (plural potteries ).
The Francois Vase, in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Florence, Italy, is a large Attic volute krater, which is both a superb example of black-figure pottery from c. 570–560 BCE, as well as an example of extensive conservation work. The vase was discovered in a tomb in 1844.
Slipware is a type of pottery identified by its primary decorating process where slip is placed onto the leather-hard clay body surface before firing by dipping, painting or splashing. Slip is an aqueous suspension of a clay body, which is a mixture of clays and other minerals such as quartz , feldspar and mica .
Dexter was a pottery instructor at a number of academic institutions in Western Canada between 1960 and 1974. From 1967 until 1974 head of Ceramics at the Kootenay School of Arts in Nelson, British Columbia. [15] The other positions that he held were; Instructor, Vancouver Community College, Vancouver, British Columbia, [12]