Beyond Representation: Shanshui Motif on Chinese Porcelain and Portuguese Faience
With the expedition of the Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares in 1513, Portugal took the first step toward discovering the new world. Since then, the Portuguese have become messengers between Asia and Europe.
Mo Guo, Rui Min
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A fruitful collaboration between French pottery specialists and North American researchers began in 2007 and initially focused on a number of sites including those of Cartier-Roberval and Champlain's House. The purpose was to identify the French pottery (
Fabienne Ravoire
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Ceramica micenea in Sardegna: stato delle ricerche e prospettive future
In questo lavoro si desidera presentare un’analisi tipologica dei materiali micenei rinvenuti in Sardegna (ceramica, faience e avorio), con l’obiettivo di proporre la revisione di alcune forme ceramiche risalenti a un arco cronologico che va dal TEIIIA2
Francesco Luca Spigno
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Beads made of Egyptian faience from the Pyany Bor culture sites
The article deals with faience beads from the Pyany Bor culture sites. The authors present a catalog including 572 Egyptian faience beads found in 11 of the 24 necropolises and 90 burials. The publication is the introductory part of a series dedicated to
Ruzil R. Sattarov +2 more
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Korálkové šperky pro onen svět. Předběžná zpráva o souborech z hrobky hodnostáře Nefera (AS 68d) // Beaded jewels for the afterlife. A preliminary report on sets from the tomb of the dignitary Nefer (AS 68d) [PDF]
Faience beads in the form of jewels, which decorated the bodies of the deceased, represent a regular constituent of the burial equipment of officials, priests and their families in the Old Kingdom period.
Veronika Dulíková
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The Variety of Vance and Avon Faience: Part I, The Vance Faience Company [PDF]
Seldom has there been a more disparate pair of ceramic Siamese twins than the Vance and Avon Faience companies of tiny Tiltonsville, Ohio, an Ohio River town about eight miles north of Wheeling, West Virginia. Sigafoose puts it more bluntly, if perhaps a
Murphy, James L., 1941-
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Faience: the ceramic technology of ancient Egypt [PDF]
Faiences are ancient Egyptian ceramic materials, considered as "high-tech" products. The paper discussed the method by which the faiences were produced and the application of SEM and Raman spectroscopy to their ...
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Coffins From the Abusir Tomb of Nyankhseshat (AS 104) Through the Lens of Wood Analysis
ABSTRACTThis article presents the results of an integrated Egyptological and anatomical study of wooden coffin fragments from the mastaba of Nyankhseshat at Abusir South (AS 104), dated to the early Fourth Dynasty. The assemblage includes remains of at least three coffins and probably of two wooden boxes. Wood analysis identified predominantly imported
Marie Peterková Hlouchová +1 more
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CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS
Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
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Abstract Kohl was ubiquitous in ancient Egypt and the Middle East, and routinely included among the toiletries deposited in burials. For Egypt, kohl recipes are increasingly well‐studied and known to use a range of inorganic and organic ingredients. Although these are often lead‐based, manganese‐ and silicon‐rich compounds are also attested.
Silvia Amicone +7 more
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