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| 20th century native american potter who revived the lost "black on black" pottery |
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| earliest form of glaze was actually clay with glaze-forming ingredients mixed in |
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| where did raku firing originate? |
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| first cultures or groups of people to make pottery |
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| glaze produces a soft gray-green color that was favored by the Chinese because of its likeness to jade |
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| who influenced the Japanese pottery style |
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| zen buddhism and the cult of the tea cermony |
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| pueblo Indians were known for |
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| geometric shapes surface designs on their pottery |
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| brightly decorated Spanish pottery shipped to Italy in the 9th century |
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| the Greek civilization is best known for |
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| painting human figures on black or red urns and amphora jars. |
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| which group has preserved some of their pottery making skills to this day? |
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| Japanese firing technique that quick fires glaze ware, producing metallic glaze |
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| furnace for firing ceramic products |
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| stage at which clay is stiff but still moist |
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| forming clay on the potters wheel |
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| a method of hand building pottery walls using snakelike rolls of clay and smoothing over the joints on the inside and outside the pot |
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| clay that has been fired once |
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| colored clay or slip which is brushed into leather-hard pottery for decoration |
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| formal system of balance where a pottery piece cut in half would have equal parts |
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| term for disk of plaster/wood/plastic which is used as a surface for throwing pots on a potter wheel |
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| principle of design demonstrated by glazing only a certain area on the surfaceof the pot |
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| element of design most important in the making of pottery |
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| if springs or other applied relief designs fall of the pot as it dries, what was most likely the problem? |
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| different moisture content |
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| product used to prevent excess glaze from fusing the pots into the shelves of the kiln during the firing process |
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| to shape a clay object by gently hitting it with a flat object |
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| what is the quickest hand building method of making a tall, straight sided cylinder form |
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| easiest technique for glaing the inside of a narrow-necked bottle or jug |
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