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2. Typology of Greek vase shapes - Wikipedia

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   The following vases are mostly Attic, from the 5th and 6th centuries, and follow the Beazley naming convention. Many shapes derive from metal vessels, especially in silver, which survive in far smaller numbers. Some pottery vases were probably intended as cheaper substitutes for these, either for use or to be placed as grave goods.

3. Dorchester Pot - Wikipedia

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   The Dorchester Pot was a metal vase-like object that was recovered in two pieces after an explosion used to break up rock at Meeting House Hill, in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1851. According to text reprinted from the Boston Transcript, a local paper, in the June 5, 1852 Scientific American, [1] the two pieces were found, loose among debris ...

4. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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   Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum ), [ 1] it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society.

5. Cloisonné - Wikipedia

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   The metal usually used for making the body is copper, since it is cheap, light and easily hammered and stretched, but gold, silver or other metals may be used. Cloisonné wire is made from fine silver or fine gold and is usually about .010 x .040 inches in cross section. It is bent into shapes that define the colored areas.

6. Vase of Entemena - Wikipedia

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   The legs of the vase are made of copper. On the surface of the vase lightly engraved, is an image of Anzud the lion-headed eagle, grasping two lions with his talons. Reception. In 1910, Leonard William King described this vase as "the finest example of Sumerian metal work yet recovered." See also. Sumerian King List; References

7. Gorham Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   Gorham Manufacturing Company Building. This Queen Anne style building located at 889–891 Broadway at the corner of East 19th Street in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City, within the Ladies' Mile Historic District, was designed by Edward Hale Kendall and built in 1883–84 as the retail store of the company.