Ceramics 1 Timeline History 1 Paleolithic through The First Cities of the Middle East
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The following questions pertain to page 1.
1. Ice Age artists modeled ______and ______, incising lines and leaving their fingertip and fingernail impressions in the clay. 2. Earliest ceramics may have been used for ______or ______. 3. The earliest known vessels to be fired were discovered in this country ______4. Around 5,000 B.C. when irrigation was first practiced, potters produced vessels by ______or by ______. 5. What device did potters use to shape their pots? ______. 6. A fine liquid clay was applied to the vessels, which was called ______. 7. How do you burnish a pot? ______8. Name the two pottery making traditions that developed in the Middle East around 6,000 B.C. ______9. In Mesopotamia potters learned to control the amount of oxygen that fueled the fire in the furnace or ______. 10. When we do a firing in our classroom, do we use an oxidation or reduction type? ______11. Pottery-making became more sophisticated when a better method of preparing the clay was discovered. Describe the decanting suspension method. ______12. How do you think you can make a footed bowl? ______13. Clay was used for many purposes during the building of the first cities of the Middle East. Name two of them. ______Ceramics 1 Timeline History 2 Egypt’s First Glaze to the Shang Dynasty, China
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The following questions pertain to page 2.
1. The blue hippopotamus is an example of the first glaze discovered in Egypt. Why is it not a true glaze? And how did they make it? ______2. The Banshan Culture of China made globular jars. How were they fired? ______3. The Neolithic Age of Japan was characterized by these vessels and was named after them. What was the name of the vessel and the Period? ______4. These Japanese vessels were elaborately made. What was so special about its ingredients and shape? ______5. How can you tell if a pot has been made by the Minoan Culture on the island of Crete? ______6. Koalin, ______, was found in large deposits in China. It was used to make ______around 1400 BC 7. How was clay useful in making elaborate bronze vessels? ______Ceramics 1 Timeline History 3 Middle America to Qin Dynasty, China
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1. The Olmec culture in Middle America created figurines depicting this animal, ______which they revered as a god. 2. Many stone sculptures and bolded clay figures depicted ______.
3. The Chavin Culture in what is modern day Peru introduced a vessel that did what when water was poured out of it? ______
4. When lead was used in early glazes, what were some of the colors that could be produced? ______.
5. In Early Greek pottery, artists used a black figure technique to decorate the pottery. Describe this technique. ______
6. How does the Red-Figure technique differ? ______
7. Persian, Assyrian, and Babylonian walls and buildings were decorated with glazed ______.
8. Middle Eastern potters added ______to lead glazes to achieve a white background on red clay for painting colored decorations.
9. Later, Middle East potters made intricate, multi-colored tiles by using ______.
10. How are the Nok sculptures different? ______
11. The Ife craftsmen were skilled in what type of casting? ______
12. The Emperor Qin’s imperial tomb unearthed an army of how many life-sized clay soldiers with their weapons and horses? ______
13. The Etruscans molded and painted brilliant colored life-sized terra cotta figures to decorate their ______and ______. Ceramics 1 Timeline History 4 Han Dynasty, China to Yueh Ware, China
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The following questions pertain to page 4.
1. Clay vessel shapes made by the Han Dynasty potters were based on ______and decorated in similar fashion with ______. 2. Tomb pottery or ______was produced consisting of pottery models of ______and ______and ______.
3. In Korea, Stilla Period potters produced ______and ______, because they were influenced by the Chinese. 4. Although the Moche culture had no writing system, the Moche potters recorded a. ______and ______events. b. Narrated their ______and ______on richly decorated ceremonial pots.
5. The Moche modeled figures and fashioned portrait vessels along with a. ______b. ______c. ______
6. The Roman Empire introduced Northern Europe to these innovations: a. ______b. ______c. ______
7. The Roman Empire also manufactured these building materials: a. ______b. ______c. ______d. ______
8. A red gloss ware was the most common Roman pottery called ______ware. 9. Arrentine ware was made in a stamped mold and covered with a fine red slip called ______and fire in an oxidizing kiln to achieve a glossy, rich red finish. 10. The first feldspar—glazed stoneware was produced in China, requiring high temperatures to fuse, and was called ______ware. 11. The gray-green color on a white porcelain clay body describes the forerunner of ______ware. Ceramics 1 Timeline History 5 Haniwa Figures to Early Islamic
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1. The Haniwa Figures were made for the same purpose as Egyptian Pharaohs and early Chinese Emperors which was ______
2. Decorating ideas from Mexico used the fresco, which was an unfired technique to do what? ______
3. The Tang Dynasty became one of the richest eras of art production because of these wonderful earthenware horses that were specially glazed with what? ______
4. Tang potters are known for their production of white porcelain ware which they used to furnish ______
5. Early Islamic potter from the Middle East discovered and perfected this glazing technique in which a metallic pigment is applied over an already fired glaze. This is called a ______Ceramics 1 Timeline History Southwest Indian to Southern Song
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The following questions pertain to page 6.
1. ______ware best exemplifies the work during the Golden Age of Korean ceramics. 2. This is an important, new, distinctively Korean, decorative technique called ______. Another name for this is Mishima. 3. ______is a high fired, white translucent ware that makes a musical sound when struck. 4. A glazed porcelaineous body that featured a smooth, ivory white glaze over delicately impressed or engraved motifs is called ______5. A light gray-colored stoneware covered with white slip and vigorously painted with dark brown or black decoration is called ______6. A thick, dark brown glaze breaking to lighter brown is called ______7. ______appears to have oil spots breaking on the surface. 8. A glaze having a network of deliberate surface cracks is called ______9. These were used to stack the ware and to protect each pot from ashes from the wood which fueled the kiln ______