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Rhyton in the shape of a bull's head

This clay vessel would have been used for the sprinkling or …
Red slipped amphora

Fineware bowls, cups and jars were often placed in Meroitic …
Pottery plate

This plate is decorated with an arabesque design in blue and…
Zoned pottery vessel

The Adena complex, in the middle and upper Ohio valley, is t…
Tamba ware mizusashi (water jar)

According to tradition there were six major centres in the K…
Teabowl with hakeme

Such eccentrically shaped teabowls became popular around the…
Temmoku type teabowl

This bluish-green glazed variant of the Temmoku style imitat…
'Octopus Style' stirrup jar

This attractive stirrup jar was placed in a tomb at Ialysos …
Glazed amphora

There was considerable regional variation in the types of ce…
Pottery jug

This pottery jug was excavated in 1900-1 from the very large…
Pottery jug

This jug, in the shape of a stylized bird, is typical of the…
Burnished black-topped redware jar

These black-topped redware jars are characteristic of the fi…
Fineware cup with frogs

The fineware pottery produced by Meroitic craftsmen is extre…
Fineware painted cup

Meroitic graves often included fragile bowls, jars and cups.…
Painted pottery group of cattle

The clay from which it is made was fired to only a low tempe…
Ceramic altar for the new yam harvest festival

Around the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the …
Pottery plate with deer glyph

Located in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley, in the central Mexica…
Water vessel

This unglazed water vessel ( sharbat al-'arus ) traditionall…
White water-pot with inbuilt strainer

This vessel is painted in vegetable dye with geometric motif…
Haji ware standing bowl (tazza)

Haji ware is a red pottery fired at temperatures below 1000°…
Haniwa

This tall pottery female figure would have stood with others…
Incense box

In Japan, the appreciation of incense was an art in itself, …
Kataguchi (spouted vessel)

Such spouted vessels were originally for domestic use, but w…
Kiseto ware bowl

Although this bowl must have been preserved as a teabowl for…
ohi ware teabowl

Raku wares were first made in Kyoto during the Momoyama peri…
Oribe ware food dish

This kind of pottery, with geometric patterns or freely dipp…
Seto ware mizusashi (water jar)

This fresh water container has spiralling fronds painted und…
Shino ware cake dish

During the Tea Ceremony a small very elegant cake is eaten b…
Stemmed Haji ware bowl with handle

Two main types of pottery were made in Japan in the Kofun pe…
Sue ware coffin

Sue pottery was a type of ware made in the Kofun ('Old Tomb'…
Teabowl, by Raku Ichinyu

Ichinyū was the fourth generation of the Raku line of p…
Bucchero ware water jug (hydria)

This heavy-looking bucchero ware jug has a moulded foot and …
Decorated bucchero ware bowl (olla)

There are only about 100 surviving examples of bucchero ware…
Double juglet of Base Ring ware

Base Ring ware takes its name from the ring-shaped bases app…
Large globular flask

This flask was found in a tomb, where it was presumably buri…
Large pottery storage jar (pithos)

This large storage jar was found in the third 'magazine' (st…
Pictorial Style bowl (krater)

During the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries BC fine Mycen…
Pictorial Style vase decorated with sphinxes and griffins

Mycenaean 'Pictorial Style' vases were produced between abou…
Pottery cinerary urn shaped like a hut

The Early Iron Age people of Etruria during the Villanovan p…
Pottery jar with exaggerated spout

This type of mottled pottery is known as 'Vassiliki Ware', a…
Pottery jug with high spout

This high-spouted jug is of a type characteristic of the Cyc…
Pottery mug in the form of the wreathed head of a boy

Drinking vessels shaped like human or animal heads became po…
Pottery ointment jar (alabastron) decorated in the 'Marine Style'

This vase is decorated in the 'Marine Style', in which motif…
Pottery stirrup jar

Stirrup jars are named after the stirrup shape that the hand…
Pottery vase with faint traces of white lilies

This tall vase was originally decorated with naturalistic sp…
Red Polished Ware figurine cradling a child

Though schematised, the figurine is clearly intended to be f…
Red-figured plate, signed by Epiktetos as painter

The painter of this plate was Epiktetos, who worked in both …
Fragment of a pottery vessel

The finds of Max Mallowan, who excavated at Nineveh from 193…
Hump-backed pottery bull

This vessel belongs to the Amlash culture of Gilan province …
Large pottery jar

During the third and early second millennium BC, as in other…
Ossuary in the form of a house

The ossuary was the most common form of burial from the Chal…
Painted beaker

This beautiful vessel is typical of pottery discovered in gr…
Painted jar

During the third - early second millennium BC, as in other p…
Painted vessel with bridge-spout

This type of painted pottery is a local central Iranian vari…
Pottery double vessel

Excavations in the Early Bronze Age levels at Tell es-Sa'idi…
Pottery jar

This pottery jar was excavated by Hormuzd Rassam in the nine…
Pottery jar

This is an example of 'Atchana' ware from the site of ancien…
Pottery 'Khabur Ware' jar

Khabur ware is wheel-made pottery with monochrome painted de…
Red burnished wine jug

These round, red-burnished jugs are typical of Urartian site…
Stone-paste laqabi dish, decorated with a harpy

Laqabi ceramics are decorated with an incised pattern under …
Colour-coated pot

Fine table wares with smooth, shiny surface slips, often dec…
Pottery face-urn

Cremation was the usual burial rite in the earlier Roman per…
Black polished incised ware cup

The handmade pottery produced by C-Group craftsmen is highly…
Blue-painted pot

This large biconical jar is typical of the 'blue painted war…
Kerma ware pottery beaker

The cultures of Kerma flourished between about 2500 and 1500…
Model of a house

During the later Predynastic period in Egypt, circular huts …
Pottery bowl containing dom palm fruits

The fruit of the dom palm was among the commonest foods enjo…
Pottery funerary cone of Senneferi

Funerary cones, fashioned out of baked clay, are among the m…

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