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  2. José García Antonio - Wikipedia

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    The artisan also makes more traditional items such as flower pots, nativity scenes, animal figures, angels, humorous skeletal figures for Day of the Dead and toys and decorations for Christmas. [1] García Antonio has been blind for 18 years from glaucoma, but he is still able to create his works by feel.

  3. Terracotta - Wikipedia

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    Unglazed terracotta is suitable for use below ground to carry pressurized water (an archaic use), for garden pots and irrigation or building decoration in many environments, and for oil containers, oil lamps, or ovens. Most other uses require the material to be glazed, such as tableware, sanitary piping, or building decorations built for ...

  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. Mexican ceramics - Wikipedia

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    White clay is a favorite to work with but many colors are used. A potter's wheel is not used. The bottom of the pot is molded and the upper part is created by the coil method. When the pot is dry, it is rubbed with a stone or other hard object to make it shine. This can take days. Pots are fired on the open ground using wood and manure for fuel.

  6. Flowerpot - Wikipedia

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    Meillandine rose in a terracotta flowerpot Traditional flowerpots in unglazed terracotta in Charles Darwin's laboratory at Down House Terracotta flowerpot in Italy, decorated with festoons A flowerpot , planter , planterette or plant pot , is a container in which flowers and other plants are cultivated and displayed.

  7. Terra sigillata - Wikipedia

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    Roman red gloss terra sigillata bowl with relief decoration Terra sigillata beaker with barbotine decoration. Terra sigillata is a term with at least three distinct meanings: as a description of medieval medicinal earth; in archaeology, as a general term for some of the fine red ancient Roman pottery with glossy surface slips made in specific areas of the Roman Empire; and more recently, as a ...

  8. Mangbetu Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Mangbetu pots are mostly mono-chromatic, made entirely with clay and fired in its natural form. As a result, most decorative pots are a dark gray color while the nembwo and Small Pots lean more towards russet. To serve as a decorative quality, patterns are often carved onto the surface of the pots in addition to the animal/human figures.

  9. 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 .

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