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4th-7th century clay pilgrim flask or ampulla. Pilgrims used ampullae like this to carry water or oil from the pilgrimage site for Saint Menas: a late-third-century Egyptian Roman soldier who was martyred for his Christian faith. He is shown between the two camels who returned his body to Egypt for burial
Syrian pilgrim token in clay from the shrine of St Symeon near Aleppo, 6th century Theodelinda was a Bavarian princess who married Authari , King of the Lombards in 588. When he died in 590, she was allowed to choose his cousin Agilulf as her next husband and the next king.
Pilgrim flask, 1580s. J. Paul Getty Museum. When Francesco died, his younger brother Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici inherited the position of Grand Duke. Ferdinando brought his prized Chinese and Medici porcelains back with him to Florence from the Villa Medici in Rome, along with his paintings and treasured Roman antiquities.
Eulogy ampulla representing St. Menas and St. Thecla (terracotta, 6th century, Louvre Museum). An ampulla (/ æ m ˈ p ʊ l ə,-ˈ p ʌ l-/; [1] pl.: ampullae) was, in Ancient Rome, a small round vessel, usually made of glass and with two handles, used for sacred purposes.
Finer clay, thrown on the wheel, permitted more precisely fashioned forms, which were covered with a dark-firing slip and exuberantly painted with slips in white, reds and browns in fluent floral designs, of rosettes or conjoined coiling and uncoiling spirals. Designs are repetitive or sometimes free-floating, but always symmetrically composed.
Terracotta pilgrim's Menas flask impressed with Saint Minas between two camels, Byzantine, 6th–7th century, probably made at Abu Mina, Egypt Niche from the Monastery of Apa Apollo in Bawit , 6th–7th century, Tempera , The Coptic Museum of Cairo
During the Iron Age the pottery was "colorful and often elaborately painted with geometric or figural motifs. Intricate 'Free-field' compositions graced juglets and jars. . Ubiquitous concentric circles were applied to jars, juglets, bowls and kraters using multiple bru
Hard-paste porcelain was invented in China, and it was also used in Japanese porcelain.Most of the finest quality porcelain wares are made of this material. The earliest European porcelains were produced at the Meissen factory in the early 18th century; they were formed from a paste composed of kaolin and alabaster and fired at temperatures up to 1,400 °C (2,552 °F) in a wood-fired kiln ...