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    Cloisonne Tripod Censer

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    including the handles, lids and tripods are painted gold except for the ornamented body of the bowl. The bowl itself consists of fluid floral motifs illustrating earth being integrated with the sky. The use of natural elements dates back since the Pan Gu pottery where the people believed that humans are god’s second thoughts and nature is the main element. There are two different types of flowers, one is on the neck of the bowl near the lid and another is on the main part of the bowl itself. Despite the unrealistic

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    Archaeological ceramics is the most prolific relics that have been studied to expand our understanding of past cultures. Archaeological study based on the investigation of pottery shape, color, decoration style and materials that can give a plenty of information regarding typological and invaluable information, dating and provenance. The study of the mineralogical properties of ceramics plays a vital role to understand the previous technologies. However, the manufacturing techniques, cleaning of

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    Roman Pottery Essay

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    Word Count: Archaeological Illustration and Imaging Compare and contrast the presentation of pottery from three different periods; the Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon, using an excavation report from a English Heritage County Journals for each period. Pottery illustrations are existent to provide information about historical vessels in comparison to other findings of history. They also lay foundations of visual evidence for future readings of the vessels. It is incredible to recognise the

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    Funerary Vase (Krater) 1) A painted clay vessel showing an early style of Greek figurative art, also embodies some core Greek beliefs. 2) Grave Marker: a) A Krater is a wide-mouthed clay vessel for mixing wine and water. 3) Terracotta: a) The vessel is made from Terracotta (Terracotta, Terra cotta or Terra-cotta (Italian: "baked earth", from the Latin terra cotta), a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic where the fired body is porous. Its uses include

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    What Is Luxury?

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    What is Luxury? 1, “Luxury is as old as civilization, it can be anything high and exceptional regard from ordinary things”. Luxury is known as an expense, it would normally be classed in higher society and is more of a want then a need. If an object was described as luxury, it could normally mean it is a unique quality handcrafted piece meaning you were paying for the hours of labour as well as the finished piece. A great ease and comfort, pleasure but not absolutely necessary “Whenever people

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    The Curriculum Project was an amazing experience to not only apply what I’ve learned in class about education to teacher, but to also reinforce my presumptive notions of my teaching abilities and help me work on the issues that I have with teaching as well. My overall goal of the class for the students was to teach them art lingo and simple ceramic techniques so they can gain a new skill and properly talk about it. My goal for myself was to practice teaching with how I explain things and give examples

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    Camelid Sacrum

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    Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine. Tequixquiac, central Mexico. 14,000-7,000 B.C.E. Bone. This sculpture is carved from the sacrum bone of a now-extinct camelid. The sacrum bone is the large triangular bone at the base of the spine. The sculpture was handmade. Geologists argue that it was carved with a sharp instrument. The two carved circles which represent the nostrils are perfectly symmetrical. This work of art is a sculpture. It was made from the now fossilized remains of the sacrum of

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    Contemporary art is the art of today. Contemporary art reflects on society and issues found around the world. At the University of Florida, the art teachers and students host Currents. Currents is an annual exhibition which address contemporary themes in ceramic art. This year’s Currents is at the Gary R. Libby Gallery. The exhibition entitled “Currents 2017- Perception: Color and Content”, focuses on the idea of how perception of color can change the way an individual perceives a works content.

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    Boscote Coating Analysis

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    All our products have been designed to flat pack and be easily assembled by anyone with limited skills or tools. Because they are compactly flatpacked we can send them anywhere in Australia at a reasonable price and can have them delivered to your door or available at a local depot (works out approx 30% cheaper. Stained Coating We use a 2 part industrial grade coating which consist of "Boscote Prime All UV" and "Boscote Decks" both of these products are a water based coating and classified as

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    Conical Hat Definition

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    The thoughts about ceramic shape’s history gave me a ground to be able to create the Conical Hat series works, and the investigation of conical hat provides the depth of my work. However, it still has lots of space for my personal concepts and understandings in this series of work. According to those studies on object and shapes, my central idea can be concluded into just one word which is “container”. I view the Conical Hat series are containers. Then, what is the container? Container is a Middle

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