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Pottery wine jar with a mud seal

The tombs of the kings of the First Dynasty at Abydos includ…
Double spout and bridge pottery vessel with a bird deity

This globular jar depicts a fantastic bird in flight with a …
Incense burners

Incense is an expensive commodity that has been traded and u…
Large pottery vessel

This pot, an oil or water container, displays the important …
Pottery bowl and wire cover

In traditional, rural Zulu society, labour is strictly divid…
Pottery female figurine

Small clay figurines are relatively common throughout Mesoam…
Pottery figure of a warrior

This sculpture represents a sitting warrior with protective …
Pottery figures of a drummer and a woman and child

At least six styles of ceramic sculptures are found in Jalis…
Pottery torso of a female

This Ameca-style figurine represents the torso of a woman we…
Pottery vessel of the Storm God

The Storm God portrayed at Teotihuacan was later known to th…
Spout and bridge vessel in the shape of a woman

The vessel represents a standing woman holding an instrument…
Vase with faces

The representation of human heads is quite common in Nasca a…
Jomon pot

There are pottery fragments from Aomori in northern Japan wh…
Long-necked Sue jar

This ritual tomb jar was shaped on a potter's wheel; the mar…
Mizusashi (water jar)

The kilns of Bizen had been established in the Middle Ages. …
Pottery vessel

This vessel has a gentle outward curve ending in a wide mout…
Pottery vessel

This pottery vessel, with its wide mouth and carefully balan…
Raku-style teabowl, by Takahashi Dohachi II

This Raku-style teabowl was made by the versatile Kyoto pott…
Sanage ware ceremonial jar

Sanage was one of the main centres for high-quality ceramic …
Spouted vessel

The structure of this vessel is technically advanced for a h…
Sue ware jar

This is an example of a traditional Sue ware tomb jar, with …
Trumpet-necked storage jar

This large jar has a rounded base which was pushed into the …
Beaker in Pergamene Relief Ware

The beaker was hand-thrown, ring handles (now missing) were …
Black Glaze pourer (askos) in the form of an elephant

This vase would have been used at table to pour small quanti…
Black Gloss drinking cup (poculum) with a painted inscription

From the third to the first centuries BC workshops in wester…
Black slip jug with barbotine decoration

The jug is covered with an overall dull black slip (a coatin…
Black-figured amphora

The Stymphalian birds were so numerous that they were destro…
Black-figured amphora decorated with a winged Nike

This pottery vessel is typically Cypriot in shape. What it h…
Black-figured plate, attributed to the painter Psiax

The archer on this plate wears a flapped and pointed cap, pa…
Black-figured water-jar (hydria) with a scene at a fountain-house

Fountain-house scenes like this one show vases of this shape…
Black-figured water-jar (hydria) with mythical and real scenes

The Etruscans not only imported Greek pottery, but also copi…
Black-glazed drinking vessel with seated hunter

This wide drinking-cup is decorated with the scene of a hunt…
Black-on-Red ware flask in the form of an ox

Black-on-Red ware was introduced to Cyprus from Phoenicia (m…
Chalkidian black-figured column-krater, attributed to the Inscription Painter

The front of this column- krater has a scene showing a four-…
Decorated pottery askos

Canosa was an important town in ancient Apulia (modern Pugli…
Fikellura style amphora with a running man

This amphora is decorated in the 'Fikellura' style. The styl…
Gaulish red slip pottery bowl

This fine tableware bowl is covered with decoration. A band …
Juglet

This juglet has eyes painted on each side, and a row of dots…
Lidded jar decorated with sphinxes, goats and floral motifs

This lidded jar is decorated with designs in red and black. …
Miniature krater with ram's head handles

The small size of this krater makes it unlikely that it was …
Neck-handled amphora with two designs of concentric circles

This jar may have served a variety of functions. However, mo…
Panathenaic prize amphora, signed by the potter Kittos

This vase belongs to a distinctive type given as a prize in …
Pedestalled krater

Large pedestalled kraters of this type were first made in …
Pottery 'Kamares' cup

Pottery in this style is called Kamares ware, named after th…
Pottery stemmed bowl decorated with a procession of riders in chariots

This vase is a fine example of Mycenaean Pictorial Style pot…
Pottery vase with crinkled rim

When Flinders Petrie excavated the large Middle Kingdom (abo…
Red Polished Ware bowl

Red Polished Ware was the dominant pottery of the Early and …
Red Polished Ware vessel

This vessel has four small bowls with a central tall handle.…
Red-figured cup (kylix)

The interior of this red-figured cup ( kylix ) shows a scene…
Sigillata jug

The lower body of the jug is decorated with motifs in sharp …
Stand and bowl with griffin's heads

Wine-drinking as a part of large social events seems to have…
Vase decorated with bulls and birds

This vase is a fine example of Mycenaean Pictorial Style pot…
Vase in the form of a male grotesque head

This particular vase is a type of pottery called Knidian Rel…
'West Slope' ware jug (oinochoe) with a gorgon's head on the neck

'West Slope' ware is named from early finds made on the west…
White-ground lekythos with a scene at a tomb

A woman (the dead person, the occupant of the tomb) sits wit…
Bridge-spouted jug on tripod stand

In the late second millennium BC a new type of pottery calle…
Burial urn

This urn comes from a religious precinct in Carthage known a…
Condiment tray

This small square platter has nine sections to hold a select…
Dish with stamped decoration

This dish has been stamped with a rhyming couplet in four li…
Earthenware bowl with kufic inscription

The decoration on this luxury bowl from Nishapur comes entir…
Lustre-painted ceramic tiles

These four tiles are part of a longer frieze with an inscrip…
Painted bowl

This bowl was excavated by E. Herzfield at the prehistoric s…
Painted jar

This painted jar, shaped like a female figure, is similar to…
Painted pottery bowl and plate

Around 5500 BC a distinctive style of pottery spread across …
Polychrome glazed jars

Though rare, there is some very attractive painted pottery f…
Pottery juglet

This juglet, with its applied figurine, is pierced at the ba…
Pottery 'Palace Ware' jar

This is a typical example of 'palace ware'. The fabric or bo…
Slip-painted pottery bowl, with an archer on horseback

This is a striking image of an archer drawing his bow and ar…

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