Kashgar is located west of the Taklamakan Desert at the feet of the Tian Shan mountain range, in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. At the junction of trade routes from the valley of the Oxus ...

Over the years I’ve repeatedly seen this viral picture of a tin-glazed earthenware plate from 1661 recirculated everywhere from Tumblr and Instagram to Twitter and Facebook. In 2019, the composer ...

As historian and author, Frances Lichten noted in her book, “Rural Folk Art of Pennsylvania,” our Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors landing at the port of Philadelphia and found the colony rich in ...

Using X-rays, a researcher has imaged 28 impressions of maize weevils on pottery shards from the late Jomon period (around 3,600 years ago) excavated from the Yakushoden site in Miyazaki Prefecture.

Ceramic is a general term we use to describe objects that are made of clay and hardened by fire and finished with a glaze. However, there are different types of ceramics, each with their pros and cons ...

Located in Manhattan, the New York City Archaeological Repository houses a number archaeology collections, recovered from various seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century contexts, including ...

Across East Asia and elsewhere in the world, most families' main staple is rice, and in Korea it's joined with the triumvirate of the Korean kitchen: soy sauce, hot pepper paste and brown bean paste.

These plates made of tightly-packed soil were produced by Japanese design collective Bril (+ slideshow). Each plate in the Rammed Earthenware collection by Bril is made from a combination of soil in ...

Earthenware dish decorated with a medallion decorated with the portrait of a soldier in the Renaissance taste in a frame of interlacing Earthenware vase with flattened body on pedestal and high ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The magic of the wood-fired kilns turning earth into a beautiful ceramic form or redware pottery, ...

*This is the first part in our series, “Onggi, traditional earthenware vessel in Korea.” This series of articles explains how to make traditional Korean pottery and how to use the large jars. We tried ...