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2. Dolium - Wikipedia

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   The dolium was a large jug or container made of fired clay. Oval in shape, with a wide mouth and rim, it was much larger than the amphora, a similar pottery container. The dolium had no neck or handles and, in many cases, could measure up to six feet in height. Some dolia have a rounded body tapering into a flat bottom, while more frequently ...

3. Jasperware - Wikipedia

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   Wedgwood devoted four years of painstaking attempts at duplicating the vase in black and white jasperware, which was finally completed in 1790, the figures perhaps modelled by William Hackwood. The replica was exhibited in London in that year, with the initial showing restricted to 1,900 tickets, which soon sold out.

4. List of glassware - Wikipedia

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   Beer bottle; Beer stein, large mug traditionally with a hinged lid; Berkemeyer; Glass, 200ml (7 fl. oz.) Australian beer glass (Queensland and Victoria) Handle, 425ml New Zealand beer glass; Jug, 750–1000ml served at pubs in New Zealand; Middy, 285ml (10 fl. oz.) Australian beer glass (New South Wales) Pilsner glass, for pale lager

5. Ancient Egyptian pottery - Wikipedia

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   This effect can be best achieved with a bright clay or coating. Thus, Christiana Köhler in her study of the Early dynastic pottery from Buto was able to identify bottles or jugs with a white coating or light, large-grained marl clay, as water containers. An opposite effect could be created with a dark overcoat.

6. Hispano-Moresque ware - Wikipedia

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   The best known and most impressive examples of Andalucian wares are the Alhambra vases, a number of very large vases made to stand in niches in the Alhambra in Granada, and perhaps elsewhere. These are very atypical in Islamic pottery in having only a decorative function, with no practical purpose, and are "by far" the largest pieces of ...

7. White-ground technique - Wikipedia

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   In white-ground pottery, the vase is covered with a light or white slip of kaolinite. A similar slip had been used as carrier for vase paintings in the Geometric and Archaic periods. White-ground vases were produced, for example, in Ionia , Laconia and on the Cycladic islands , but only in Athens did it develop into a veritable separate style ...