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the Potteries

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
the Potteries area, c.9 mi (15 km) long and 3 mi (4.8 km) wide, Staffordshire, W central England, extending northwest-southeast in the upper Trent valley. The area includes Stoke-on-Trent and part of Newcastle-under-Lyme . The Potteries is very densely populated and has been a center for the manufacture of china and earthenware since the 16th cent. Josiah Wedgwood, Josiah Spode, and Thomas and Herbert Minton are among the famous men who worked there. Most of the raw materials are now brought in from other districts, the clay (since the 18th cent.) largely from Cornwall and Dorset... Read more
pottery
The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English pottery • noun   synonyms : ceramics, earthenware, stoneware, terra-cotta. Read more
black-figure pottery
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Type of Greek pottery that originated in Corinth 700 . The figures were painted in black pigment on the natural red clay ground. Finishing details were then incised into the black pigment, revealing the red ground. The great Attic painters (mid 6th century ), most notably Exekias , developed Read more

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