2014年9月13日 · Pottery is the first synthetic material ever created by humans. The term refers to objects made of clay that have been fashioned into the desired shape, dried, and either fired or baked to fix their form.

Ancient civilizations utilized clay and ceramic work to create plates and utensils for eating, vessels for storage and transportation, figures for burial, pots for rituals, and so much more.

Greek pottery, the clay vessels of the ancient Greeks, important for their beauty of form and decoration and for their demonstration of changes in Greek pictorial art. Such vessels as the krater and kylix were used to store and drink wine, while such smaller pots as the lekythos were used to contain perfumes and oils.

Pottery, also called ceramics or ceramic art - the creation of objects, mainly cooking or storage vessels, made out of clay and then hardened by heat - was the first functional art to emerge during the Upper Paleolithic, after body painting.

Ancient Egyptian pottery includes all objects of fired clay from ancient Egypt. [1] First and foremost, ceramics served as household wares for the storage, preparation, transport, and consumption of food, drink, and raw materials.

2019年8月18日 · In this collection, we look at the pottery of some of the most famous producers of wares in history such as the striking black figures on ancient Greek pottery, the three-dimensional models in clay beloved by the Etruscans and, perhaps the two finest examples of the ceramic arts ever produced, Celadon pottery from Korea and Ming dynasty porcelain.

The pottery produced in Archaic and Classical Greece included at first black-figure pottery, yet other styles emerged such as red-figure pottery and the white ground technique. Styles such as West Slope Ware were characteristic of the subsequent Hellenistic period , which saw vase painting's decline.

2018年3月16日 · Ancient Greek pottery was made of clay which was then fired in an oven at a high temperature. The best clay was in Attica where its high iron content gave the pottery a rich orange-red colour. What is the difference between black-figure and red-figure Greek pottery?

Since the earliest civilizations, people have made vessels to carry and store food and liquid. These functional ceramics quickly began to be decorative and artistic. Scroll to see five important...

Clay-fired ceramics (pots and figures) were invented at different times, in different locations, becoming the predominant ancient art in the process. But it was China who established itself as the master of pottery technology.