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  2. Burnishing (pottery) - Wikipedia

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    Burnishing gives pottery a reflective surface without having to use a ceramic glaze. [5] It is described as a low-tech way of finishing pottery because burnished pottery needs to be fired below 1832F (1000C), which is different from firing glaze. [5] Burnishing can also be a step towards preparing pottery for pit firing, saggar firing, or raku. [5]

  3. Black-burnished ware - Wikipedia

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    Black Burnished Ware Category 2 (BB2) is greyer in color and has a finer texture when compared with BB1. [4] It is a “hard, sandy fabric, varying in colour from dark-grey or black with a brown or reddish brown core and a reddish-brown, blue-grey, black or lighter ('pearly grey') surface.” [5] The clay body can contain black iron ore, mica, and quartz, all in a matrix of sediment. [5]

  4. Dark faced burnished ware - Wikipedia

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    Dark faced burnished ware or DFBW is the second oldest form of pottery developed in the western world, the oldest being Dotted wavy line pottery from Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was produced after the earliest examples from the independent phenomenon of the Jōmon culture in Japan and is predominantly found at archaeological sites in Lebanon ...

  5. Category:Types of pottery decoration - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Burnishing (pottery) C. Cardium pottery; Celadon; Chintzware; Chocolate-on-white ...

  6. Black-on-black ware - Wikipedia

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    Black-on-black ware pot by María Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, circa 1945.Collection deYoung Museum María and Julián Martinez pit firing black-on-black ware pottery at P'ohwhóge Owingeh (San Ildefonso Pueblo), New Mexico (c.1920) Incised black-on-black Awanyu pot by Florence Browning of Santa Clara Pueblo, collection Bandelier National Monument Wedding Vase, c. 1970, Margaret Tafoya of ...

  7. Horse hair raku - Wikipedia

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    Horse hair vase. Horse hair raku is a method of decorating pottery through the application of horsehair and other dry carbonaceous material to the heated ware. The burning carbonaceous material creates smoke patterns and carbon trails on the surface of the heated ware that remain as decoration after the ware cools.

  8. Burnishing - Wikipedia

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    Burnishing may refer to: Burnishing (metal) , plastic deformation of a surface due to sliding contact with another object Burnishing (pottery) , pottery polishing treatment

  9. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    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).