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  2. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Slab-footed tripod vessels are a signature of the ceramicists of Teotihuacan. These dishes consist of a large pot supported by three legs. The size of these vessels ranges from personal drinking cups to large basins. The range of styles is just as great. The walls can be any combination of concave, straight, unornamented or highly decorative.

  3. Maya ceramics - Wikipedia

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    The coils were then smoothed together to create walls. The slab method used square slabs of clay to create boxes or types of additions like feet or lids for vessels. Once the pot was formed into the shape, then it would have been set to dry until it was leather hard. Then, the pot was painted, inscribed, or slipped.

  4. Minoan pottery - Wikipedia

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    Cups had reduced in size for it to be used by one person. [13] The vast majority of these Minoan tripod cooking pots had deep featured bodies, usually being supported with three legs with either horizontal handles or vertical handles with a small opening on the top. They appear to be the most common way to cook. [14]

  5. Chinese ceramics - Wikipedia

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    A number of different other methods using coloured glazes were tried, often with images lightly incised into the body. The fahua technique outlined areas of coloured decoration with raised trails of slip, and the subtle "secret" ( an hua ) technique decorated using very light incisions that could hardly be seen.

  6. Pueblo pottery - Wikipedia

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    [62] Native American modern and contemporary art, and pueblo pottery and other "crafts" face a kind of double jeopardy because in the past not only have "craft-based media" been excluded from American art history, the field has frequently marginalized Native American art and the artists that make these works, relinquishing them to the realms of ...

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  8. Ancient Egyptian pottery - Wikipedia

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    According to the group who developed it, the system was only intended as a departure point, a guide for the description of pottery. The classification of the various wares is based on the measurement of the size of the organic and non-organic components of the pottery fabric. [61] The components are divided into three groups according to their ...

  9. Mississippian culture pottery - Wikipedia

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    In some areas exploitation of the platform mounds became a cottage industry, as the value of the pots increased in demand on the art and antiquities markets. [37] Many states as well as the US federal government now have laws prohibiting the looting of such sites, [ 38 ] although the high prices these objects command on the black market has ...