Pottery
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Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place whe
Hand building a jar
An 18th-century Chinese export porcelain service, for the America market
The pottery market in Boubon, Niger
Earthenware jar from the Neolithic Majiayao culture China, 3300 to 2000 BCE
Clay
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Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as
Pottery
…Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where a potter makes such wares is also…
Boulder clay cliff south of Withernsea, England
A 23,500 times magnified electron micrograph of smectite clay
Italian and African-American clay miners in mine shaft, 1910
Clay layers in a construction site in Auckland, New Zealand. Dry clay is normally much more stable than sand in excavations.