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Ice Age Europe fired figurines
Paleolithic age ceramics 35,000-7000 BCE
Middle East or Western Asia
First fired vessels 6000BCE
Sumerian clay tablets and stamps
Persian Pottery
Kufic Script on pottery
Luster and underglaze on pottery
Glazed tiles in architecture
Early middle eastern Islamic Ware
Medieval Islamic Period, enamel glaze, Gambroon ware or Mina’I ware
Late Islamic Period, Middle East
Africa
Egyptian dynastic pottery
Egyptian Paste
Life Size figures from the Nok Culture
Ife Sculpture
Benin figure sculpture for bronze casting
Mediterranean
Minoan Pottery
Mycenaean Pottery
Etruscan clay sculpture (Vulca, very famous)
Greek Pottery
The types and forms of Greek pottery and their uses
Black figure pottery
Red figure pottery
White figure pottery
Japan
First fired vessels 9500BCE
Jomon Pottery
Bizen ware
Raku tea bowls
Kenzan art pottery
Hawina figures

Tea Ceremony
Raku
Arita Ware
China
First fired vessels- 7000BCE
Early Chinese Pottery (Neolithic)
Shang Dynasty 1600 – 1100 BCE
Early porcelain (Kaolin)
Life size terracotta sculptures (Qin Dynasty)
Han Dynasty
Tang Dynasty- tri colored figurines
Ming Dynasty: blue and white pottery
Sung Dynasty: porcelain and celadon glazes
Northern Song Dynasty
Southern Song Dynasty
Yueh Ware
Ch’ing Dynasty
Korea
Koryo Dynasty
Choson Period
Silla Period
Europe
Technological innovations from the Roman Empire
Tin Glazed Pottery
Luca Della Robbia
Spanish Maiolica
Germany- salt fired stoneware
Holland: blue and white “Delftware”
Great Britain: Wedgewood factory
Hispano-Moresque Wares, Spain
Tin Glazed Earthenware, Italy
Salt glazed stoneware, Germany
Tin Glazed Earthenware, France
Arts and Crafts Movement pottery, Great Britain
Pablo Picasso Pottery
American
First pottery made in South America, 3000 BCE
Peruvian pouring pots and stirrup bottles (Chavin Culture)
Aztec clay sculpture
Mexican Pottery: Burnished blackware
Classic Period, Teotihuacan, Mexico
Mayan post classical warriors

Chimu Culture, South America
Aztec pottery and sculpture
Olmec culture Ceramics
Mochica Pottery (Peru)
Mata Ortiz workshop
USA
Arts and Crafts Movement Pottery USA
Pueblo Pottery Revival
Warren MacKenzie
African American face pots from the Carolinas
Hohokam Culture, Sacaton bowls
US Colonial Stoneware
Mimbres Pottery
The invention of the potter’s wheel
The invention of the kiln
The invention of glaze