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4th-7th century clay pilgrim flask or ampulla. Pilgrims used ampullae like this to carry water or oil from the pilgrimage site for Saint Menas: a late-third-century Egyptian Roman soldier who was martyred for his Christian faith. He is shown between the two camels who returned his body to Egypt for burial
Syrian pilgrim token in clay from the shrine of St Symeon near Aleppo, 6th century Theodelinda was a Bavarian princess who married Authari , King of the Lombards in 588. When he died in 590, she was allowed to choose his cousin Agilulf as her next husband and the next king.
Medici Porcelain Works, Bottle, c. 1575–87, with pitted texture detail; Soft Paste Porcelain; OA 2734, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Medici porcelain was the first successful attempt in Europe to make imitations of Chinese porcelain, though it was soft-paste porcelain rather than the hard-paste made in Asia.
The pottery was made of semi-porcellanous clay with cobalt-blue floral ornamentation on a white or copper-blue base. In the course of time, many experimental designs like mythological figures, hunting scenes, Amber Fort, and Rajput havelis found a place in the pieces exhibited in the collection that housed both decorative and functional pieces.
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Hard-paste porcelain was invented in China, and it was also used in Japanese porcelain.Most of the finest quality porcelain wares are made of this material. The earliest European porcelains were produced at the Meissen factory in the early 18th century; they were formed from a paste composed of kaolin and alabaster and fired at temperatures up to 1,400 °C (2,552 °F) in a wood-fired kiln ...
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Fired clay or terracotta was also widely employed in the Roman period for architectural purposes, as structural bricks and tiles, and occasionally as architectural decoration, and for the manufacture of small statuettes and lamps. These are not normally classified under the heading 'pottery' by archaeologists, but the terracottas and lamps will ...