Ceramic Vessels From Different Cultures

Due to their resilience ceramics have been key to learning more about pre columbian indigenous cultures.

Ceramic vessels from different cultures.

Ancient persian art from 3500 bce. All three have a focus on religious and cultural themes and values unique to the country. Ceramics are used for utilitarian cooking vessels serving and storage vessels pipes funerary urns censers musical instruments ceremonial items masks toys sculptures and a myriad of other art forms. The vessels used different colors sizes and had varied purposes.

Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component. Cultures especially noted for ceramics include the chinese cretan greek persian mayan japanese and korean cultures as well as the modern western cultures. Native american pottery is an art form with at least a 7500 year history in the americas. There is evidence that pottery was independently invented in several regions of the world including east asia sub saharan africa the near east and the americas.

They included highly polished bowls of red pottery with black dots spirals and flowing lines. Chinese late neolithic ceramics feature a variety of delicate burnished ceremonial vessels illustrating the painted pottery culture of the period. Maya ceramics are ceramics produced in the pre columbian maya culture of mesoamerica. Individual examples include the princeton va.

Students view ceramic vessels from different time periods and cultures and discuss their meanings functions and original contexts. In bhutan the variety in ceramic production includes unfired sculpture traditional unglazed pots and modern pottery. Vessels for the elite could be painted with very detailed scenes while utilitarian vessels were undecorated or much simpler. They develop criteria for value and meaning of these objects and create a timeline to situate the objects in history.

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