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The Painted Grey Ware culture (PGW) is an Iron Age Indo-Aryan culture of the western Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley in the Indian subcontinent, conventionally dated c.1200 to 600–500 BCE, [1] [2] or from 1300 to 500–300 BCE.
The Painted Grey Ware (PWG) culture is an Iron Age culture of the western Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley, lasting from roughly 1200 BCE to 600 BCE, [51] [52] [53] which probably corresponds to the middle and late Vedic period, i.e., the Kuru-Panchala kingdom, the first large state in South Asia after the decline of the Indus Valley ...
An examples of grey ware found in Pakistan was the Faiz Muhammad Grey Ware. This was manufactured during the Mehgarh Period V and included deep, open bowls and shallow plates. [3] The technology used for this type of grey ware was similar to the technology used in the grey ware found in east Iranian sites called Emir Grey Ware. [3]
A second phase of Early Bronze I may be seen in both the northern and southern regions. In the north much pottery is painted or slipped red and burnished. Gray Burnished ware continues to be made but examples of this ware, in the earlier period finely made and obviously luxury items, are less well made.
The period after 180 BCE has generally been called the "Sunga period", from the name of the Hindu Sunga Empire (c. 180-80 BCE) which replaced the Mauryan Empire in eastern India. This is now thought to be rather inadequate since the Sungas probably never ruled in Mathura: there is no literary, numismatic or epigraphic evidence of a Sunga ...
Triangular Saint-Porchaire ware salt. 17.5 cm high Life-size majolica peacock by Mintons, c. 1876. In 2010, an example sold for £110,000 [ 17 ] Despite the most highly valued types of pottery often switching to stoneware and porcelain as these were developed by a particular culture, there are many artistically important types of earthenware.
Cemetery H, Late Harappan, OCP, Copper Hoard and Painted Grey ware sites. The term copper hoards refers to different assemblages of copper-based artefacts in the northern areas of the Indian Subcontinent that are believed to date from the 2nd millennium BC.
Chinese pottery also used techniques where patterns, images or calligraphy were created as part-dried slip was cut away to reveal a lower layer of slip or the main clay body in a contrasting colour. The latter of these is called the "cut-glaze" technique. [7] Slipware may be carved or burnished to change the surface appearance of the ware.