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A large Kvevri held at the Georgian National Museum of Tbilisi. Kvevri or Qvevri (Georgian: ქვევრი [ˈkʰvɛvɾi]) - also known as Ch'uri (Georgian: ჭური [ˈtʃʼuɾi]) in Western Georgia - are large earthenware vessels used for the fermentation, storage and aging of traditional Georgian wine.
The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey.It is typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used.
Wine vessels of every shape, size, and design have been the crucial part of pottery in Georgia for millennia. Ancient artifacts attest to the high skill of local craftsmen. Among vessels, the most ubiquitous and unique to Georgian wine-making culture are probably the Kvevris, very large earthenware vessels with an inside coat of beeswax.
Freer Gallery of Art Hu wine vessel of Song, Western Zhou period, late 9th century BC，National Palace Museum, Taiwan. Huixian Bronze Hu at the British Museum Bianhu with geometric decoration. Warring States period, c. 3rd century BCE. Freer Gallery of Art. A hu is a type of wine vessel that has a pear-shaped cross-section. Its body swells and ...
The Heidelberg Tun (German: Großes Fass), or Great Heidelberg Tun, is an extremely large wine vat contained within the cellars of Heidelberg Castle. There have been four such barrels in the history of Heidelberg. In 1751, the year of its construction, the present one had a capacity of 221,726 litres (58,574 U.S. gallons).
Internal parts of a globe valve. This is an English version of File:Globe_valve_diagram.svg in Commons. Source I (Petteri Aimonen ) created this work entirely by myself. Date 12:01, 9 September 2009 (UTC) Author Petteri Aimonen Permission (Reusing this file) See below. Other versions Globe_valve_diagram.svg
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