pottery

Mesopotamian pottery

5000 BCE

Mesopotamian : pottery with animals on them Pinch potting, slab building and coil building are some things they used to use and potters still use today
Potters used various tools to design their work Designs were made on semi wet pottery using tools like metal shells teeth bone rocks and sticks. The pottery of Mesopotamia was not only known for putting on to the practical usage but also for its design.

Indus valley civilisation pottery

3500 BCE

Harappa : Plain undecorated pottery is more common at Mohenjo-Daro than painted ware. But the well-known painted red and black wares were adorned with black colored designs on red background.
Most popular design is a series of intersecting circles, which has probably not been used by any other ancient civilization. Other designs included tree pattern, the chessboard pattern, figures of animals and birds.
They used
Thin pottery plaques, rectangular in shape were used as writing tabs

Egyptian pottery

3200 BCE

Egyptian: they used a lot of signs and and humans carves to decorate their pot and they were first to add colour The oldest pottery technique consisted in hollowing out a lump of clay by hand and pinching it to give it the final form. Later a flat tool was used to press the clay against the other hand. This simple procedure brought forth the elegant they had thin-walled vessels
They had broken shaped pieces of different things as decoration and they added pop up stuff

mayan civilisation pottery

2600 BCE

Mayan the mayans did not add colour but used lot of details which include 3d details
the final centuries B.C., artists were engineering beautiful monochrome vases. The spectrum of slips on early pottery is limited to reds, creams, and blacks, but often potters would experiment with different firing temperatures and environments to create mottled surfaces, like red with black accents

Chinese civilisation pottery

1046 BCE

Chinese : they used a lot of nature prints they had white ceramic pots with blue / bright colours design Chinese Pottery is one of the oldest in the world. Ceramics were used for making pots before bronze was invented. Vessels of clay were used mostly for rituals or for any other utility purpose. Thereafter Kilns were discovered in China.Chinese were one of the first people to use Potters wheels Various types of Vessels were used in Ancient China especially Earthenware Vessels .

Greek civilisation pottery

800 BCE

Greek : the greek pottery was a lot like the egyptians the had alike designs and lots of humans and animals except the used only black and brown for colour The clay to produce pottery was readily available throughout Greece, they clay with a slight sheen when fired the Clay was generally prepared and refined in vessels
Greek pottery was made on the potter's wheel and usually made in separate horizontal sections: the foot, the lower and upper body, the neck, and finally the handles,

Roman Civilisation pottery

753 BCE

Roman : plain pots with no design and no colour just plain instead of adding design to make it 3d they would ingrave it and pick up different styles from different places they conquered and they mostly made pottery for use of earthen ware and they had something called coarse ware which was earthen ware for poor people

Persian Civilisation Pottery

550 BCE

Persian: turquoise colour flowers unusual shapes cool colours represent the lifestyle of iran black details Pottery is one of the oldest Persian art forms, dating back from the 5th millennium BC. The earliest pottery extant is supposed to be a metallic ware, which was probably produced several centuries before 2017
Influenced by techniques already practiced in conquered territories, Persian potters developed new forms and styles to produce the fine wares that characterize Persian ceramics.

Aztec civilisation pottery

1428

Aztec : lots of tribal pots and colours represent old mexico
They also created a style which is now called black on orange which basicly is orange pots with black designs they mostly used geometric shapes or patterns or marine life

Incas civilisation pottery

1438

Incas: main colour black brown white warli art/ stick figures a lot like aztec prints potters excelled in producing realistic human groups and even vivid portraits. Some of the Peruvian coastal pottery still stands unequaled in the life-like portrayal of human action and emotion ceramic art. against the use of the human form in decoration. using geometric patterns or birds and animals rather than the human forms

15th century

1500

Redware is an earthenware that was first manufactured c. 1500. It was available in a variety of vessel forms, including plates. Redware is easily broken and can be glazed or unglazed, either with or without decoration. By 1740, the pottery industry was truly established in Stoke-on-Trent, but the local clays that could be found in the area were not favoured by potters because they fired red - potters wanted white clays that were as similar as possible to the china from the Far East.

17th century

1700

By 1740, the pottery industry was truly established in Stoke-on-Trent, but the local clays that could be found in the area were not favoured by potters because they fired red - potters wanted white clays that were as similar as possible to the china from the Far East.

19th century

1900

after clay was washed to remove impurities, and worked into a uniform consistency, most vessels were "thrown on a wheel." A lump of clay was put a horizontal disk turned by the potter's leg. With wet hands the potter formed the clay into the desired shape. He then set the piece aside to dry. When dry, it was often dipped to a water-based slurry of ground sand and metallic salts called a "glaze," and again allowed to dry. Dried pieces were then stacked in the large brick kiln outside of the area

modern pottery

2017

modern pottery is available in all shapes colour and sizes with modern technology there are electronic ways to dry the pottery in any shape now days pottery is not used for vessels it is used as decoration now days mostly people buy rustic/old pottery modern pottery can have any design you wish and with the wide collection of paints you can get it in any colour and any texture from holographic vase to bowls.