Ceramics Museum Report

The Greeks took care of the dead by washing them, putting them in tombs, and bringing offerings to their grave. The women’s role was to wash and wrap the dead bodies in cloth. They also decorated them with flowers and herbs. The men dug the area in which the body was to be buried. On this first piece of pottery, it looks like people are walking as if they were in a funeral procession. Women are surrounding the dead person and men are following the women. The pottery has a top that looks like a funnel which comes down and narrows out into a long neck. At the bottom of the long neck it starts to get wider and forms a shape that looks like a vase. The vase sits on a very small pedestal. On the sides of the narrow neck there are two handles that look like very long and thin wings. On the neck of the pot, there is one women standing there. The design above her head looks like a wreath. She looks like she is crying over a body. She is on top of everything that is on the pottery which leads me to conclude that she is an important part of this piece. The dead person may have been her son or husband. At the bottom of the pottery there is a design that looks like black spikes. The pot is entirely black with the picture in gold paint. This pot was called a Loutrophoros. It was used for holding water to wash the dead body. After the body was buried, the Greeks put offerings on the graves of the people who have passed away. This next

My role as a teacher is to create stimulating classes giving the learners the opportunity to develop and achieve skills associated with ceramics practices. I start by firstly understanding the assesment criteria set out by the AS board,

Pottery was utilised for a variety of purposes such as storage, food preparation, ritual activity, transportation and more. Stone artefacts were another source of evidence with objects such as pestles and mortars, vases, hammers and tools. The stone artefacts that were produced locally were made from imported fine stones such as alabaster, limestone and marble. Architecture was another prominent feature that showed what Theran culture was like. There were three types of buildings including the mansions, freestanding buildings and joined houses, each belonging to the according wealth of an individual. Additionally, wall paintings of the frescoes from Akrotiri provide some of the most famous images such as the Boxers, Fisherman, Ladies, Lilies, Monkey, Papyrus and Spring frescoes. In many cases all four walls were decorated to create a panoramic scene with naturalistic representations.

After weeks of working I made a total of three pottery pieces, the one that I spent most time on is a clay pot that was made to look like an ancient greece piece of art. They used as grave markers and many other useful things. Back in ancient Greek pottery was divided into four different areas. These areas are for storage and transport vessels, mixing vessels, jugs and cups, vases for oils, perfumes and cosmetics. Many believed that Greek pottery, unlike today's pottery, was only fired once, but that firing had three stages. When firing their art pieces the kiln was heated to around 920-950 °C. They technically decorated their pieces to tell a old story or to represent something, normally people in a darker shaded color. I chose this culture

Pottery is very beneficial and advantageous to archaeologists as it is a very common and widespread product that leads us to have a greater understanding about the everyday life of the area inhabitants. “Pottery is one of the most common artefacts in ancient sites. Once broken, unlike glass and metal, it cannot be recycled. This makes it very useful to archaeologists,” said Pont. Pont made the conclusion that the red slip pottery was used by the Pompeian’s as tableware with the main purpose of serving food and drink given its characteristically glossy surface. By dipping ceramics in liquid clay and later firing it in an oxygenating kiln is how this gloss is created (Kalnins, 2004) (see figure

The goal of this report was to bring awareness to the problems that Perfect Pottery has fallen victim to from the recent, drastic change of moving to the United States. This article is aimed at bringing ideas to the table that would solve many of the situations and difficulties that came with that recent transition.

Porcelain has a reputation, and gets treated as one of the most fragile and expensive materials money could buy. Anything that is made of porcelain is a real piece of art especially to whoever owns it. While reading an excerpt from the Seattle art museum online I found that the exact time and place of the creation of the first Chinese porcelain has not been firmly established. It is reported as early as 600 AD is when the creation of high fired ceramic wares was producing white ceramic material that was known as porcelain. Porcelain can take the credit for what was considered cross-cultural encounters for many centuries. They used porcelain as a vehicle for designs and ornamental motifs between Asia and Europe. Those little works of art have also influenced traditions in other countries that have been witness to the amazing artistic features of porcelain design. Having a very nice set of china myself, I now understand the reasoning behind protecting such valuable property. I would like to be able to see firsthand some of the masterpieces that may be roaming throughout the great country of China.

From a contemporary perspective, current ceramic artists might challenge that Leach’s domestic wares were categorized as craft, and this is an age-old debate that has gained momentum since the 1980’s when ceramicists began producing work which “questioned the categories and boundaries of art and craft and claimed ground for the sculptural and conceptual in ceramics ……… declaring(ing) the right to continue a tradition of contemplative and emphatically non-utilitarian ceramic forms”.

On the Levi Jordan Plantation ceramic shards have been found next to what is thought to be a hearth or fireplace. Some of the clay was in the form of one bowl, several ceramic plates and cups. The hearth was most likely the center of activity in the cabin, as tobacco pipes were scattered around it. Blacksmiths will sometimes make pots, but most of the time they used iron or aluminum. Pots are made from clay, which can be found anywhere near a river. Then the clay is fired, to dry it after it has been shaped (most of the time by hand, but in modern times on a pottery wheel). A couple of countries who were the first to make clay pots were, Czech Republic, Japan, and China. Clay was a very important resource used for decoration, storage, and

According to Isaacs, pottery was introduced to Hermannsburg in the late-twentieth century by Victor Jaensch. Jaensch “advised on sourcing local clay, and built a small kiln” and his Arrernte assistants, Nashasson Ungwanaka and Joseph Rontji, “began the tradition of making sculptures from clay” which were painted and sold at craft shops (Isaacs 2000:50). To many western critics and commentators of the time, the works of the original Potters did not appear as ethnographic or distinctively Aboriginal, as it was not like any of the traditional Aboriginal art forms produced at the time. However, today, Hermannsburg pottery produced by the current generation of women is flourishing. The Hermannsburg Potters webpage discusses the unique process by which these iconic sculptured terracotta pots are made. From clay, coils are rolled out and then each coil is a layered and pinched together. As the layers build, the clay is hand sculpted into a desired form. Once the moulding process is complete, the surface is further smoothed and shaped. Once dry, the pots are decorated with a ceramic based material or slips with pigment. Then lastly, the pots are

A couple of the rare wrecks dated to be around 525-480 BC were around the Archaic Greek Period. There also was black-glazed pottery found in some wrecks that belong to the Hellenistic Greeks. This tpe of pottery was used and produced in the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Eventually this black glazed ware would be replaved with red- figure

The first work I studied is the Terracotta Skyphos. It is a cup from early imperial time. It belongs to the Roman culture. It was made at Tarsus in Cilia. It is from Cyprus. The cup is made out of Terracotta, which is a clay-like substance. It is fired clay that can that is durable and strong. It can be molded into any shape. In Italian terracotta means “baked earth.” Making a terracotta sculpture is quick, simple, and cheap. This cup was lead glazed; the shape of the cup represents the Hellenistic period. It’s a fancy work, decorated with plants and flowers. The plants look like it is popping out. It resembles the repousse technique. The cup has a rough texture and the way the light hits it almost looks dark in some areas. On the display it

One of the most memorable aesthetic experiences I had was at Archie Bray in Montana on May 2013. While visiting Montana had the opportunity to go to the Archie Bray Foundation. Artists like “Rudy Autio and Peter Voulkos who were the first resident managers of the Bray. The volume and quality of their work drew attention to the new program and attracted many talented and ambitious potters” (sic) (. Archie Bray foundation). These potters came together to create a standard in the ceramic world. Also, it is a place for residencies of other known and unknown ceramic artists to be able to take the time to make a body of work. While I was there looking at the artists and what they were working on, I came across a piece

I find it very interesting how there’s a parallel between the slow food movement and pottery. Food is considered the “right to pleasure”. The slow movement opposes fast food in society and instead promotes enjoyment of traditional food. An approach to pottery making resuscitating antique technologies.This is the notion of finding materials to work with local materials such as food and clay materials. In addition to resuscitating antique technologies, the notion of good clay is a very important aspect for potters. Good clay is plastic, has ease of wheel-forming, or fring without warpig,slumping or bloating. Wood fire potters are concerned with how clay interacts with wood flame and ash. As a result of good clay, glaze, and firing techniques,

Trade with China at the end of the eighth century brought a large amount of imported stoneware and porcelain pottery vessels into the Abbasid Court at Baghdad. This influx of Chinese pottery inspired much imitation from the Islamic potters in Baghdad. Therefore, this Arab city became the center of Islamic culture in the ninth century, and here the first schools of ceramic making were established (Meri 2006). The earliest products of the Baghdad kilns are obvious attempts to imitate Chinese Tang porcelains, but soon the Muslim potters developed a taste of their own, and, although always inspired by Chinese examples, began to produce molded and multicolored wares of great beauty and originality (Lane