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Underglaze
An underglaze is a decorative technique used in pottery. Pigment is applied on either an unfired or biscuit fired piece of pottery before being coated with glaze. The pigment fuses with the glaze when the piece is fired, either for the first time or during the glost fire, in a kiln. The reverse is […]
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Tyg
A Tyg is a large English mug with three or more handles dividing the rim into sections for several drinkers. These tall, black-glazed, red-bodied drinking vessels were produced from the 15th century through the first half of the 17th century, peaking in popularity during the 16th and 17th centuries. Some were made with as […]
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Troika Pottery
Troika was an art pottery operating in Cornwall from 1963 to 1983.
Troika was set up in 1963 by three men, Benny Sirota, Leslie Illsley and Jan Thomson. Sirota and Illsley were the creative force behind Troika and wanted to pursue their vision of pottery as art, without regard to function. This ran counter to […]
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Transfer-print
Transfer printing is a mass-production method of applying an image to a curved or uneven surface. It is most commonly used for printing on porcelain and other hard surfaced pottery.
Transfer printing evolved in England in the 1750s. The image is first engraving on a copper plate. Pigment is then added - often mixed with […]
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Tin-glazing
Tin-glazing is the process of giving ceramic items a tin-based glaze.
Tin glazes, normally fired on earthenware, were invented by the Assyrians three thousand years ago. Tin glazes are superior to lead-based glazes because they are less easily fused than lead glazes, making them less likely to run during firing. Additionally, since the tin particles […]
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Thomas Whieldon
Thomas Whieldon (1719-1795) was one of the most respected and well known potters of his time. By 1740, he was the master of pottery at Fenton Low. His talent and renown picked up gradually and by 1748 he was known to have only taken in nineteen employees, one of which was Josiah Spode.
Spode was […]
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Thomas Twyford
Thomas William Twyford (1849-1921) was a Pottery manufacturer in England.
At the time of his death he was recognised as a leading pioneer in the application of principles of hygiene to sanitary appliances.
Copyright: Wikipedia information about Thomas Twyford – This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the […]
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Thomas Minton
Thomas Minton (1765 – 1836) was an English potter. He founded Thomas Minton & Sons in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, which grew into a major ceramic manufacturing company with an international reputation.
He established his pottery factory in Stoke-upon-Trent in 1793 producing earthenware and from 1798 bone china. His products were mostly standard domestic tableware […]
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Thebes tablets
The Thebes tablets are clay tablets, discovered in Pelopidou Street at the city of Thebes, with inscriptions in the Mycenaean language in the Linear B script. They belong to the later LHIIIB Helladic period context; using Near Eastern cylinder seals that were found in the 1963-4 campaign that also produced some tablets, the editors […]
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The Proto-Geometric period
The Proto-Geometric period In about the 11th century B.C. new developments and innovations were taking place in Athens, although other styles of vase painting had existed, it was in this period that new techniques went on to lead the pottery market.
Some of the innovations included some new Mycenean influenced shapes, such as the belly-handled […]
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