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In 1856, the Reverend John McKamie Wilson Jr., a Presbyterian minister and entrepreneur interested in clay science, relocated ...
A Shropshire potter is keeping tradition alive and revealed he is the last in the country to still be producing vintage cider ...
The Mississippi River is a mighty waterway. It carries hundreds of millions of tons of freight every year, is home to a ...
The 11cm high jug is made in Stoke-on-Trent by pottery manufacturer Bairstow Manor. Each one is handmade and hand-painted by talented clay modellers. But whether these pottery whizzes have ...
Greece launches a program to protect the archaeological site of “Archontiki” on the island of Psara in the eastern Aegean.
The most traditional dish is the soft, sticky mushroom rice, finished in a hot stoneware bowl so it has formed a crisped bottom or nurungji. You are invited to finish the dish yourself with a jug ...
Human remains—some buried in clay containers, others laid directly into ... a 40-square-meter deposit contained over 13,000 fragments of broken pottery: cups, bowls, cooking pots, and jugs, most ...
Hard-drinking English fishermen all carried them full of brandy, rum or ale. Originally crafted in Germany in the 1500s, these stoneware jugs were decorated with the face of a bearded man. The ...