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  2. Ceramic glaze - Wikipedia

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    Composite body, painted, and glazed bottle. Iran, 16th century (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Detail of dripping rice-straw ash glaze (top), Japan, 1852. Ceramic glaze, or simply glaze, is a glassy coating on ceramics.

  3. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm Jane Osti (Cherokee Nation), with her award-winning pottery, 2006. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component.

  4. White-ground technique - Wikipedia

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    White-ground technique is a style of white ancient Greek pottery and the painting in which figures appear on a white background. It developed in the region of Attica , dated to about 500 BC. It was especially associated with vases made for ritual and funerary use, if only because the painted surface was more fragile than in the other main ...

  5. Underglaze - Wikipedia

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    Underglaze is a method of decorating pottery in which painted decoration is applied to the surface before it is covered with a transparent ceramic glaze and fired in a kiln. Because the glaze subsequently covers it, such decoration is completely durable, and it also allows the production of pottery with a surface that has a uniform sheen.

  6. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Clay tempered with sand, grit, crushed shell or crushed pottery were often used to make bonfire-fired ceramics because they provided an open-body texture that allowed water and volatile components of the clay to escape freely. The coarser particles in the clay also acted to restrain shrinkage during drying, and hence reduce the risk of cracking.

  7. Lustreware - Wikipedia

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    The Fatimid court in Egypt was large, rich, and extravagant, producing one of the great periods for lustreware, which was the only luxury type of pottery at the time. The clay-bodied earthenware used was "made from coarse clays" and mostly "fairly roughly made", [26] but the best painting was very fine, and in the mature Fatimid style ...

  8. Overglaze decoration - Wikipedia

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    The technique essentially uses powdered glass mixed with coloured pigments, and is the application of vitreous enamel to pottery; enamelled glass is very similar but on glass. Both these latter two are essentially painting techniques, and have been since they began.

  9. Ceramic art - Wikipedia

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    Slipware is a type of pottery identified by its primary decorating process where slip is placed onto the leather-hard clay body surface before firing by dipping, painting or splashing. Slip is an aqueous suspension of a clay body, which is a mixture of clays and other minerals such as quartz , feldspar and mica .

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