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2. Bolesławiec pottery - Wikipedia

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   Bolesławiec pottery ( English: BOLE-swavietz, Polish: [bɔlɛ'swav j ɛt͡s]), also referred to as Polish pottery, [1] is the collective term for fine pottery and stoneware produced in the town of Bolesławiec, in south-western Poland. The ceramics are characterized by an indigo blue polka dot pattern on a white background or vice versa.

3. Maya ceramics - Wikipedia

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   Maya ceramics are ceramics produced in the Pre-Columbian Maya culture of Mesoamerica. The vessels used different colors, sizes, and had varied purposes. Vessels for the elite could be painted with very detailed scenes, while utilitarian vessels were undecorated or much simpler. Elite pottery, usually in the form of straight-sided beakers called ...

4. Ceramic art - Wikipedia

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   16th century Turkish Iznik tiles, which would have originally formed part of a much larger group. Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take varied forms, including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is a visual art.

5. Rookwood Pottery Company - Wikipedia

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   Japonisme in 1884. Rookwood Pottery is an American ceramics company that was founded in 1880 and closed in 1967, before being revived in 2004. It was initially located in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has now returned there. In its heyday from about 1890 to the 1929 Crash, it was an important manufacturer, mostly of ...

6. Minoan pottery - Wikipedia

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   Minoan pottery. "Marine Style" flask with octopus, c. 1500-1450 BC. Figurine of female worshipper, Phaistos, 1700-1600 BC, AMH. Minoan pottery has been used as a tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they assist ...

7. Louisville Stoneware - Wikipedia

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   Louisville Stoneware. Stoneware & Co., which was previously known by various other names including the J. B. Taylor Company and Louisville Stoneware until sometime after its sale in July 2007, is a stoneware -producing company located in the Highlands section of Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1815, it is one of the oldest stoneware producers ...