painted pottery
Colored glazed vessels
Painted pottery is ceramic ware decorated with pigments applied before or after firing.
The term appears most often in archaeological and art historical contexts, referring to ancient traditions: Greek painted pottery, Pueblo painted pottery.
Distinguished from glazed or incised decoration, painted pottery features designs brushed or drawn directly onto the surface.
- decorative platesDishes for display, not eating
- floral designsDecorative patterns featuring blooms
- storage jarsContainers for keeping provisions
- earthenwareLow-temperature fired pottery
- geometric patternsArrangements of regular shapes
terra sigillata · fired clay · clay slip · red-figure · tribal symbols · wheel-throwing · Islamic art · decorative arts · museum piece · Neolithic · black-figure · Greek vases · polychrome · cooking pots · religious iconography · urn · ceramics · Ming
- ancient artifactsjade mask, Viking sword, bronze sculptures, antiquities, Roman coin
- ancient artsculpture, sculptures, mosaics, murals, frescoes
- Pre-Columbian artifactsancient artifacts, clay figurines, ceramic vessels, stone carvings, burial goods
- ancient Chinese ceramics
- Asian PrehistoryPaleolithic, Bronze Age, Chalcolithic, hunter-gatherers, stone tools
- Egyptian potterycanopic jars, faience, storage jars, ceramic cups, earthenware
painted potteryglazed pottery
Ceramic with vitreous coating
glazed ceramics · porcelain · stoneware · celadon · majolica