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2. Modelling clay - Wikipedia

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   They are baked at high temperatures in a process known as firing to create ceramics, such as terra cotta, earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain. Paper clay produced by pottery clay manufacturers is a clay body to which a small percentage of processed cellulose fiber has been added. When kiln-fired, the paper burns out, leaving the clay body.

3. Olla - Wikipedia

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   When an unglazed olla is filled with water, the water permeates the clay walls of the vessel, causing the olla to “sweat”. The evaporation of the sweat cools the olla and its contents. In the early 20th century, many ranches in the American Southwest used the practice of hanging an olla from a rope on the verandah in a shady, breezy spot.

4. Mexican ceramics - Wikipedia

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   Angelica Vasquez Cruz is known for her figures of women, mermaids and angels. Vasquez is a single mother who raised four children, making money and a name by the making of these figures. She has won numerous awards for her intense and intricate work. Her clay images are almost always focused on a strong female figure.

5. California pottery - Wikipedia

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   Tableware, art ware & figurines [11] Classic Terra Cotta Company: Long Beach: 2003–present: Terra cotta floor tile [34] Clay Sketches: Pasadena: 1940-50s: Figurines [4] Clay Works, Inc. Canoga Park: 1973-Planters [20] Claycraft Potteries: Los Angeles: 1921–1939: Tile [2] The Claysmiths: San Gabriel: 1945–1956 "Will-George" art ware ...

6. 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 ...

7. Terracotta - Wikipedia

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   In art, pottery, applied art, craft, construction and architecture, "terracotta" is a term often used for red-coloured earthenware sculptures or functional articles such as flower pots, water and waste water pipes, tableware, roofing tiles and surface embellishment on buildings. In such applications, the material is also called terracotta.

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9. Conservation and restoration of ancient Greek pottery

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   The information learned from vase paintings forms the foundation of modern knowledge of ancient Greek art and culture. Most ancient Greek pottery is terracotta, a type of earthenware ceramic, dating from the 11th century BCE through the 1st century CE. The objects are usually excavated from archaeological sites in broken pieces, or shards, and ...