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2. Teco pottery - Wikipedia

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   "Teco Green" vase, before 1922 Vase. The American Terracotta Tile and Ceramic Company was founded in 1881; originally as Spring Valley Tile Works; in Terra Cotta, Illinois, between Crystal Lake, Illinois and McHenry, Illinois near Chicago by William Day Gates. It became the country's first manufactury of architectural terracotta in 1889. The ...

3. Deruta ceramics - Wikipedia

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   Dish with a Peacock Feather Pattern, c. 1470-1500. J. Paul Getty Museum Deruta maiolica plate, 17th-century, Arezzo museum. Deruta, a medieval hilltown in Umbria, Italy, is mainly known as a major centre for the production of maiolica (painted tin-glazed earthenware) in the Renaissance and later.

4. American art pottery - Wikipedia

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   The Teco Pottery was founded in Terra Cotta, Illinois, in 1899 by William Day Gates, as a specialty branch of his American Terra Cotta Tile and Ceramic Company, which made architectural terra cotta items like drain tiles and chimney tops. Gates's experiments with glazes and forms led him to found Teco (an acronym for TErra COtta) to create art ...

5. Euphronios Krater - Wikipedia

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   The Euphronios Krater stands 45.7 cm (18 inches) in height and has a diameter of 55.1 cm (21.7 inches). It can hold about 45 L (12 gallons). The style of the vase is red-figure pottery, in which figure outlines, details, and the background are painted with an opaque black slip while the figures themselves are left in the color of the unpainted terracotta ceramic clay.

6. Greek terracotta figurines - Wikipedia

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   Terracotta figurines are a wide range of small figurines made throughout the time span of Ancient Greece, and one of the main types of Ancient Greek pottery. Early figures are typically religious, modelled by hand, and often found in large numbers at religious sites, left as votive offerings .

7. Mexican ceramics - Wikipedia

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   While lead free and low lead glazes have been developed for use with low temperature firing, the most traditional, only about half of artisans use it. [16] [18] However, the fastest growing ceramics industry sector is composed of small companies that manufacture mostly handmade tableware and decorative articles.