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Red-Figure Pottery

by Heather Montgomery
published on 07 September 2012
Red-figure Pottery is a style of Greek vase painting that was invented in Athens around 530 BCE. The style is characterized by drawn red figures and a painted black background. Red-Figure Pottery grew in popularity, and by the early 5th century it had all but replaced black-figured pottery as the predominant pottery type in Athens. The last recorded... [continue reading]
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Pottery

by Jan van der Crabben
published on 03 August 2011
Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery (plural "potteries"). Pottery is made by forming the clay body into objects of a required shape and heating them to high temperatures in a kiln to induce reactions... [continue reading]

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