Infobox prepared food name Tav e Grav e image File .jpg caption Typical Macedonian tav e grav e alternate name country Macedonia region Macedonia region creator course main course served main ingredient Beans variations calories other Macedonian cuisine Tav e Grav e lang mk or Fasoulotavas lang el English language English translation beans in a skillet is a traditional Macedonia region Macedonian dish. It is prepared with fresh beans and it can be found in almost all restaurants in Macedonia and all over the Macedonians Greeks Greek and Macedonians ethnic group Macedonian Macedonian diaspora diaspora . It is served in traditional earthenware. Tav e Grav e is considered the national dish of the Republic of Macedonia . Ingredients Below are the ingredients for preparing the dish, but every cuisine uses other ingredients, too, and has its own method of preparation. beans onion oil capsicum red dry pepper red and black black pepper pepper , salt and parsley Preparation The beans are cleaned and then soaked in cold water for 3 hours to become soft. After that they are boiled in a pot. After first boiling the water it is thrown out and replaced with fresh water. Then the onion and the black pepper are added. Apart in a pan an onion together with the black pepper are fried. When the beans are boiled they are put in earthenware together with the onion and the red pepper and stirred well. Afterwards, a lid is put on the earthenware and the dish is put in oven to be cooked on 220 C. During the baking, the beans are cooked so carefully that they do not become dry. The earthenware does not just give a traditional look to the meal, but also keeps the beans warm. The beans may be eaten with different kinds of meat . Tav e Grav e in the Tetovo style is widely known in Macedonia. External links http www.cybermacedonia.com foodgrav.html Tav e Grav e Recipe http balkan cuisine.com 2009 05 gravche tavche.html Tav e Grav e Recipe and photo http bal ... more details
orphan date June 2008 Grinded Tea zh c is a special sort of Hakka cuisine Hakka drinking, which is very traditional among Hakkas in Mainland China. It is not the same as Chinese tea because there are always other ingredients such as rice, soybeans, sesame seeds, peanut, ginger and salt added and all these are grinded in a large earthenware basin with a wooden stick. Sometimes there may be some Chinese herbal medicine included for purpose of health. The custom began in the Three Kingdoms period. Category Chinese tea Category Hakka China cuisine stub Tea stub ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2010 Matki , or Matka is the Hindi Urdu word for an Earthenware earthen pot . It is used all over India , as well as Pakistan , Bangladesh and Sri Lanka , as a home water storage cooler . It has been in use since ancient times and can be found in houses of every class. Cooling process The cooling process works through Evaporative cooler Evaporative cooling evaporative cooling . Water seeps from mini pores in the pot and evaporates, thus making the water inside cooler than the outside temperature. Hence it is used only during summers and not in winters. See also Indian pottery Category Containers Category Indian pottery Category Pakistani pottery tool stub india stub ... more details
merge to Vacuum flask cooking date January 2011 Orphan date April 2010 Refimprove date March 2010 A modern thermal cooker uses the concept of the Haybox whereby placing hay or straw around a cooking pot of heated food the meal continues to cook without fuel. History The earliest dates from medieval times and consisted of two earthenware pots on within the other. The technique involved bringing food up to temperature on the fire as usual, but rather than allowing it to cook over the flame, the hot pot was placed in a nest of hay, moss, dry leaves or other insulating material, in a box or hole in the ground, and covered. The heat in the pot was conserved for a considerable length of time, and the food inside would cook slowly, without the need for supervision. Both time and fuel were saved in this way, and foods that needed long slow cooking, such as pulses or tough meat, benefited from this technique. An example of this type of cooker was found by The Monmouth Archaeological Society s Monmouth year long excavation inside two shops at 69 71 Monnow Street, Monmouth. In 69 Monnow Street what maybe the first archaeological evidence of cooking without fire . The remains of the pots that were found can been seen in http www.peoplescollection.co.uk Item 8314 a fragment of a mediaeval fireless cooking po The Peoples Collection Wales Medieval Instructions for cooking without fire taken from an Anglo Norman manuscript in the British Library ref Moorhouse 1987, 26 Hieatt and Jones 1986, 874, No.6 ref Take a small earthenware pot, with an earthenware lid which must be as wide as the pot, then take another pot of the same earthenware, with a lid like that of the first this pot is to deeper than the first by five fingers, and wider in circumference by three then take pork and hens and cut into fair sized pieces, and take fine spices and add them, and salt take the small pot with the meat in it and place it upright in the large pot, cover it with the lid and stop it with moist, cla ... more details
Infobox cheese name Metton image othernames country France regiontown Franche Comt region Franche Comt town source Cow s pasteurised texture fat protein dimensions weight aging certification Metton is a runny French cheese made in Franche Comt , mostly used as an ingredient for making Cancoillotte . The traditional process to produce Cancoillotte with metton is to cook it in an earthenware pot with some water or milk, then to add salt and butter garlic is an option . External links http www.parolesmania.com paroles thiefaine 9403 paroles la cancoillotte 332333.html text for the La cancoillotte song by Hubert F lix Thi faine French cheeses Category French cheeses Category Cow s milk cheeses fr Metton ru ... more details
File Terrine.JPG thumb 225px A terrine being used For the food Terrine food A terrine is a glazed earthenware terracotta , French terre cuite cooking dish ref name dictionary http dictionary.reference.com browse terrine Terrine. http dictionary.reference.com Dictionary.com . Accessed July 2011. ref with vertical sides and a tightly fitting lid, generally rectangular or oval. Modern versions are also made of enameled cast iron. Terrine may also easily be confused with tureen , a large, deep, and usually round or oval covered dish, used for serving soup soups or stew stews . References reflist cooking tool stub Category Cookware and bakeware Category French words and phrases Category French loanwords Category Terracotta es Terrina fr Terrine ja fi Terriini ... more details
Image Nabeyaki udon by macglee in Nishiki Ichiba, Kyoto.jpg thumb right 250px Various ingredients in a donabe Donabe Japanese wikt , literally earthenware pot are pots made out of a special clay Fact date February 2007 for use over an open flame in the Cuisine of Japan Japanese kitchen . Often, the food is cooked right at the table on a gas burner for various nabemono dishes such as shabu shabu . The donabe is usually glazed on the inside and porous on the outside. The material is similar to earthenware or stoneware although normally, earthen or stoneware pots should usually not be used over an open flame . Donabe however, can be used over an open flame as well as in an oven if three precautions are taken. First, the outside of the donabe should be dry before use, as moisture within the clay will expand in the heat and may chip or crack the pot. Secondly, the pot should be heated gradually to reduce the possibility of cracks due to heat stress. Third, the pot should never be left over the flame while empty. If properly treated, these pots should last for decades and a few special ones have survived for centuries. When a new donabe is obtained, one should let the donabe boil water for hours and dry before using it for cooking. Other sources suggest that user should simply fill the donabe with water and let it sit overnight. This process should be repeated if the donabe has been unused for a long time. In old ryoutei of Kyoto , decades old donabe would be stored and only used for special guests. Young donabe would be used for preparing lunch menus and food for cooks, to age them for this purpose. gallery File Cainz Donabe Hakusen nagashi 19cm 1.jpg File Cainz Donabe Hakusen nagashi 19cm 2.jpg gallery See also Clay pot cooking List of Japanese cooking utensils Category Japanese cooking tools es Donabe ru ... more details
HistoryOfSouthAsia The Northern Black Polished Ware culture abbreviated NBPW or NBP of the Indian Subcontinent circa 700 BC 700 200 BC is an Iron Age culture, succeeding the Painted Grey Ware culture . It developed beginning around 700 BC, or in the late Vedic period , and peaked from circa 500 BC 500 300 BC , coinciding with the rise of the Mauryan Empire . Scholars have noted similarities between NBP and the much earlier Harappan Civilization Harappan cultures, among them the ivory dice and combs and a similar system of weights. Other similarities include the utilization of mud , baked brick s and Rock geology stone in architecture, the construction of large units of public architecture, the systematic development of hydraulic features and a similar craft industry. ref name shaffer Shaffer, Jim. 1993, Reurbanization The eastern Punjab and beyond. In Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times , ed. Howard Spodek H. Spodek and D.M. Srinivasan. ref There are also, however, important differences between these two cultures for example, rice , millet and sorghum became more important in the NBP culture. ref name shaffer The NBP culture may reflect the first state level organization in the Indian Subcontinent. ref name shaffer Some sites where Northern Black Polished Ware have been found are Mahasthan, Chandraketugarh, Bangarh, and Mangalkot all in West Bengal, India . References references External links http lakdiva.org coins ruhuna ruhuna elephant srivasta disk.html http www.indiaheritage.org creative creative earthenware & pottery.htm India Heritage Earthenware and Pottery Category Iron Age Category Archaeological cultures Category Ancient peoples of Pakistan Category Ancient peoples of India es Cultura de la cer mica negra pulida norte a ru fi Pohjoinen musta kiillotettu keramiikka ... more details
In 1917, Jacques and Juliana Busbee , artists from Raleigh, North Carolina , discovered an orange pie dish and traced it back to Moore County, North Carolina Moore County , where they found a local tradition of utilitarian pottery in orange, earthenware , and Salt glaze pottery salt glazes . The Busbees saw an opportunity to help save a dying craft, and in 1918 they set up the Village store in Greenwich Village, New York in order to sell the pottery. Potters they worked with over the years included JH Owen , Charlie Teague , and Ben Owen. Jacques Busbee died in 1947. In 1960, John Mare bought Jugtown Pottery and hired Vernon Owens as the Jugtown thrower. After the sudden deaths of John Mare and Juliana Busbee in 1962, Owens leased the business and kept it going for six years, until it was sold to Country Roads, Inc., a nonprofit organization working toward the preservation of hand crafts. Under the direction of Country Roads, Nancy Sweezy served as director and potter. Sweezy changed the earthenware glazes to fritted lead glazes, then developed a new line of high temperature glazes in order to make them lead free. She also developed a completely different line of complex colors, including Blueridge Blue , Cinnamon , a different Tobacco Spit , Mustard and Dogwood White . Sweezy also set up an apprenticeship program that served over thirty pottery students from 1969 through 1980. In 1983 Country Roads moved on to another project, and Vernon Owens bought Jugtown. He has run it with his wife Pam Owens since then. Pam and Vernon opened the Jugtown Museum in 1988. Jugtown Pottery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. References http library.uncg.edu depts archives mss html Mss070.htm Finding Aid for the Juliana Royster Busbee Papers, 1911 1981 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Busbee, Juliana Royster ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 196 ... more details
File A.J. Wilkinson03.jpg thumb center Central Works in Burslem File A. J. Wilkinson01.jpg thumb A.J. Wilkinson Arthur J. Wilkinson , Royal Staffordshire Pottery was a pottery or potbank at Newport in Burslem , owned by the Shorter family since 1894. A sprawling complex of bottle oven s, kilns and production shops, it lay beside the Trent and Mersey Canal , the artery which provided it with coal and the raw materials for earthenware . In its heyday it employed 400 manual workers. The pottery had formerly been operated in turn by Hopkin & Vernon, Hulme & Booth, Thomas Hulme, Burgess & Leigh, and Richard Alcock, who enlarged the works extensively. On Alcock s death in 1881, the owners became Wilkinson & Hulme and in 1885 to Arthur J. Wilkinson. The works at first produced earthenware for the home market, but later operations concentrated on white graniteware for the United States. Wilkinson introduced gold lustre on graniteware. In about 1896 A. J. Wilkinson took over the Royal Staffordshire Pottery in Burslem. ref http www.thepotteries.org potworks wk 043.htm ref The pottery was managed by Colley Shorter, an affluent Victorian era Victorian , and his brother Guy. Colley, whose full name was Arthur Colley Austin Shorter 1882 1963 , moved in exclusive circles and had a taste for antiques and fine furnishings. His second wife was the ceramic designer Clarice Cliff . ref http www.pottery english.com Articles Famous Potters The Life of Clarice Cliff Part 1 ref External links http www.historyandnostalgia.com decarts a j wilkinson.htm History & Nostalgia Bibliography The Shorter Connection A.J.Wilkinson, Clarice Cliff, Crown Devon A Family Pottery, 1874 1974 Irene Hopwood & Gordon Hopwood References reflist DEFAULTSORT Wilkinson, A.J. Category Staffordshire pottery ceramics stub ... more details
Colonoware , which is alternately called Colono Indian Ware , is a type of ceramic earthenware constructed and used along the east coast of North America from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries. It was first identified by the British archaeologist Ivor No l Hume , who published his findings in 1962. He referred to it as Colono Indian Ware , believing that it had been developed by Native Americans, who then sold it for the use of African American slaves. Archaeological investigation The first archaeologist to identify and categorize colonoware was the Englishman Ivor No l Hume 1927 , who had been undertaking excavations of Colonial Williamsburg throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1962, he published a paper entitled An Indian Ware of the Colonial Period in the Quarterly Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Virginia , which he devoted to the discussion of this particular earthenware. Believing that it was produced by Native American communities, he called it Colono Indian Ware and introduced his paper as a contribution to the study of American Indian archaeology and culture . ref Noe62 No l Hume 1962 . ref In subsequent decades, further excavations took place across South Carolina under the mandates of the National Historic Preservation Act and other federal statutes. ref Fer92 Ferguson 1992 . p. 07. ref Through these, much more colonoware was unearthed, leading one archaeologist working in the state, Leland Ferguson, to examine it further. In doing so, he came to the conclusion that the majority of it was produced not by Native Americans, but by African Americans. ref Fer92 Ferguson 1992 . p. 09. ref References Footnotes Reflist 2 Bibliography refbegin cite book title Uncommon Ground Archaeology and Early African America, 1650 1800 last aut Ferguson, Leland year 1992 publisher Smithsonian Institution Press location Washington D.C. and London isbn nopp ref Fer92 cite article title An Indian Ware of the Colonial Period last aut Ivor No l Hume ... more details
For the software company Creamware software company Image Creamware.jpg thumb Creamware Plate, 1780 1790 V&A Museum no. 2302 1901 Creamware is a cream coloured, refined earthenware created about 1750 by the potters of Staffordshire , England , which proved ideal for domestic ware. It was popular until the 1840s. It was also known as tortoiseshellware or Prattware depending on the colour of ceramic glaze glaze used. It served as an inexpensive substitute for Chinese export porcelain. The most notable producer of creamware was Josiah Wedgwood . Around 1779, he was able to lighten the cream colour to a bluish white using cobalt in the lead overglaze. Wedgwood sold this more desirable product under the name pearl ware . Wedgwood supplied his creamware to Queen Charlotte and Catherine the Great and used the trade name Queen s ware . External links http collections.vam.ac.uk category creamware pearlware 139 Creamware at the Victoria and Albert Museum Category British art Category Staffordshire pottery Industry stub ceramics stub de Steingut sv Flintgods ... more details
about the vessel the unit of measure Acetabulum unit In classical antiquity ancient dining, an acetabulum Greek language Gr lang grc , lang grc , lang grc was a vinegar cup, which, from the fondness of the Ancient Greece Greeks and Ancient Rome Romans for vinegar, was probably always placed on the table at meals to dip the food in before eating it. The vessel was wide and open above and the name was also given to all cups resembling it in size and form, to whatever use they might be applied. The cups used by juggler s in their performances were also called by this name. They were commonly of earthenware , but sometimes of roman glass glass , silver , bronze , or gold . In anatomy, because of its shape, the acetabulum is the place of pelvis that meets with the head of the femur, forming the hip joint. Ancient Rome stub Ancient Greece stub References SmithDGRA Category Containers Ancient Greece topics ca Acet bul pt Acet bulo vaso ... more details
Multiple issues wikify August 2011 unreferenced December 2009 Orphan date October 2006 att December 2011 Merge Xochiquetzal date May 2009 Xochiquetzal is an Aztec Goddess. Xochiquetzal is also more commonly known as Ichpuchtli or Xochiquetzal Ichpuchtli combined. She is the ruler of love, marriage, flowers, art, music, women, magic, spinning, fertility, sex, weaving, and changes. Ichpuchtli is also the Goddess of sacred prostitution , and professions which imitate nature. Image Ichpuchtli.jpg frame A Marigold tapestry depicting Ichpuchtli Tagetes Marigolds are sacred to her. Invoke Ichpuchtli for beauty, sensuality, survival, crafts, fertility, childbirth, agriculture, dance, music, singing, repopulation, flower magic, sexual freedom, love spells, knot magic, sexual pleasure, sex magic, and a fruitful marriage. Feathers, marigolds, and small earthenware images of her are appropriate offerings to Ichpuchtli. Category Aztec goddesses Category Love and lust goddesses Category Arts goddesses Category Crafts goddesses Category Magic goddesses Category Fertility goddesses es Ichpuchtli ... more details
Wiktionarypar gaskin Gaskin may refer to the following People Barbara Gaskin British singer Catherine Gaskin Australian Irish author of romance novels Edward Gaskin educator and labor leader George J. Gaskin U.S. singer Stephen Gaskin U.S. counterculture icon Walter E. Gaskin Commanding General, U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Leonard Gaskin American jazz musician Rory Gaskin The Original Ginger Cat Law Gaskin v UK UK legal case Vehicles 9K31 Strela 1 , a Russian military vehicle tagged with the Nato name Gaskin Building technology Gaskin A loosely spun hemp fibre rope sometimes tarred used to make joints in socket collar and spigot pipe jointing systems. Earthenware or cast iron . Largely obsolete. Often found in pre mid twentieth century drainage systems. Animals Horse anatomy External anatomy Gaskin horse large muscle on the hind leg of a horse or related animal between the stifle and the hock the relevant section of the leg. Homologous to the human calf. disambig de Gaskin ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Giacomo Boselli 1744 ?1808 was an Italy Italian ceramics sculptor and painter, of the Rococo period. Trained in Marseille and Liguria , he mainly worked in his native town of Savona in his father s factory producing painted porcelain , maiolica , and earthenware. His wife Clara Chiarina Boselli was a skilled painter. In 2006, he was the focus of an exhibition titled The Spring of Giacomo Boselli which traveled from Savona to Genoa . External links http images.comune.savona.it IT f IniziativeCulturali BO BOSELLI.pdf Exhibition http itdecorativ.net decorative Bos C3 A8lli 20Gi C3 A0como 2692.html Short biography Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Boselli, Giacomo ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1744 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Boselli, Giacomo Category Italian artists Category Year of death missing Category 1744 births ... more details
otheruses Tian A tian is a tall, conical earthenware cooking vessel used in the Alpes Maritimes area of France . Today, most of these vessels are produced in the town of Mougins . It is traditionally made from Terra cotta red clay and can be either glazed or unglazed. A modern tian can come lidded or not and sometimes has a looped handle on one side. The vessel is used to cook a traditional braised vegetable stew also called tian. The unglazed vessels, filled with root and winter vegetables along with wine or rinds of cheese, were placed in the hot ashes of a fire and left to stew all day in gentle heat, somewhat like a Dutch oven . The looped handle was left sticking out of the ashes for easy removal once the dish was done. Today, the modern version of vegetable tian is not a stew, but a freeform composite of roasted vegetables baked in a shallow dish with cheese to form a casserole . Category Cookware and bakeware Category French cuisine Category Stews en French Tian fr Tian cuisine proven ale kitchenware stub ... more details
Gordon Baldwin born 1932 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire Lincoln , England is an influential British Studio pottery studio potter . He studied at Central School of Art and Design 1950 53 ref http www.bmagic.org.uk people Gordon Baldwin Biography for Gordon Baldwin ref and was teacher of Ceramics and Sculpture at Eton College ref http www.scottish gallery.co.uk pages artistIntro.aspx?artistID 11 ref Baldwin was awarded an OBE in 1992 and an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art , London in 2000. ref http www.bmgallery.co.uk baldwin baldwin.htm ref He was influenced by contemporary sculpture and has worked with both earthenware and stoneware. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in many public collections. See also Studio pottery References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Baldwin, Gordon ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1932 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Baldwin, Gordon Category 1932 births Category Living people Category Officers of the Order of the British Empire Category English potters ... more details
other uses The botija botijuela bunga is a Caribbean musical instrument of the aerophone type. It was used in the early Son music son sextetos in Cuba . The botija is a potbellied earthenware jug or jar with two openings. The player creates sound across a hole in the side whilst controlling the sound with his fingers in the mouth of the jug. The instrument produces a bass sound. ref Carpentier, Alejo 2001 1946 . Music in Cuba . Minneapolis MN. p228 ref The botija is now a relic instrument the son groups replaced it with the double bass during the 1920s. See also Udu References Reflist coord 39 20 N 6 04 W source kolossus ruwiki display title Category Cuban musical instruments Category Caribbean musical instruments Category Aerophones musical instrument stub caribbean stub ar ca Botija C ceres es Botija C ceres eo Botija ext Botija eu Botija fr Botija ia Botija it Botija pt Botija ro Botija C ceres ru uk vi Botija war Botija ... more details
File Stupika and artifacts Bali 8th century.jpg thumb Buddhist model clay stupa Stupika inside which can be found clay tablets with Buddhist texts and Buddhist images. 8th century Bali . A stupika is a small votive stupa . It is often accompanied by small votive tablets with Buddhist formulae, or small Buddhist images. ref cite book last Miksic first John N. title Earthenware in Southeast Asia pages 289 url http books.google.com books?id gxM0k5lGupAC&pg PT289 accessdate 2009 08 16 isbn 9789971692711 year 2003 publisher NUS Press ref The stupika can also be the topmost part of a building, particularly a Hindu temple. ref cite book last Snodgrass first Adrian title The Symbolism of the Stupa pages 263 url http books.google.com books?id o0aQMlFX8ugC&pg PA263 accessdate 2009 08 16 isbn 9780877277002 year 1985 publisher SEAP Publications ref References reflist Category Stupas Buddhism stub ... more details
The North Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery is a privately owned local museum and art gallery in Camelford , north Cornwall , England . ref http www.culture24.org.uk mw1012 North Cornwall Museum & Gallery , Culture24 , UK. ref The museum opened around 1974 in a building that was originally used for building Coach carriage coaches and wagon s. ref http search.visitbritain.com en EN Details.aspx?ContentID 133757 North Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery , VisitBritain , UK. ref The museum covers life in North Cornwall between 50 100 years ago, including cider making, dairy, farming, and wagons, with sections on the tools used by different types of traditional crafts and professions. There is also a Cornish and Devon shire earthenware collection. References reflist UK museum stub coord 50.62081 N 4.68105 W type landmark region GB display title Category Museums established in 1974 Category Museums in Cornwall Category Local museums in Cornwall Category Art museums and galleries in Cornwall Category 1974 establishments in England ... more details
Arklow Pottery was a pottery founded in 1934 and formally opened by Se n Lemass Minister for Industry and Commerce 29th July 1935 in South Quay, Arklow , County Wicklow , Ireland. The company produced many decorative earthenware goods and general table crockery. It was taken over by Noritake but following financial difficulties ceased production in 1999. ref http www.studiopottery.com cgi bin mp.cgi?item 223 Studio Pottery Accessed September 2010 ref ref http www.worthpoint.com worthopedia rare irish arklow hand painted pottery set WorthPoint Accessed 26th Sep 2010 ref There is an Arklow Pottery cup and saucer with Tiger strips, designed by John Ffrench around 1950, held and exhibited by the National Museum of Ireland. Arklow pottery is now closed. ref http www.museum.ie en list artefacts.aspx?article 2b02f8f9 6c01 4c5c abd5 53cfd51a374e National Museum of Ireland Accessed 6th Oct 2010 ref References Reflist ceramics stub Category Ceramics Category Pottery in Ireland ... more details
Jar burials imply inhumation when the corpse is placed into a large earthenware of different shape and then is interred. Use of the term denotes a pattern at a site or within an archaeological culture . When an anomalous burial is found in which a corpse or cremation cremated remains have been interred, it is not considered a jar burial . At different times jar burials were practiced among different nations. See also Jar Burial Culture References Ivashchenko, M. Kuvshinnye pogrebeniia Azerbaidzhana i Gruzii. Izvestiia AN Azerbaidzhanskoi SSR, 1947, no. 1. Kaziev, S. M. AVbom kuvshinnykh pogrebenii. Baku, 1960. Golubkina, T. I. Kul tura kuvshinnykh pogrebenii v Azerbaidzhane. In the collection Tr. Muzeia istorii Azerbaidzhana, vol. 4. Baku, 1961. A. Nnoeshvili, Funeral Practice of Transcaucasian Nations The 8th B.C. the 8th A.D. Jar Burials , Tbilisi, 1992, ISBN 5 520 01028 5 Prehistoric technology Category Death customs Category Archaeological features ru ... more details
Image De Porceleyne Fles Delft.jpg thumb 275px right The Koninklijk e Porceleyne Fles aka, Royal Delft ref http www.delfthuis.com ref is the only remaining factory of the 32 earthenware factory factories that were established in Delft during the 17th century. It is known for its Delftware production, which has been active for more than 350 years, without interruption ref http www.royaldelft.com english about royal delft facts and figures.html ref . History Delft Blue started in The Netherlands around the 17th century when the VOC the Dutch East India Company brought the blue painted porcelain back from China. This resulted in an inspiration for the Dutch ceramists, because this fragile porcelain was not created or seen before. For Royal Delft, it all started in 1653 when David Anthonisz van der Pieth transformed his house into an earthenware factory. Unfortunately for Van der Pieth his son was far from interested in this business and therefore he had to sell his factory real soon. This was not extremely difficult because 42 years later this industry was booming in Delft Royal Delft already had 32 competitors in that year. Of course this was made possible by the high demand for the product and because of the decrease in beer breweries that were suited for transforming into earthenware factories. However, the most important reason, was probably that in the 17th century China faced a civil war which decreased the import of porcelain. Though, this industry did not remain as booming as in the 17th century because in the 19th century 1840 to be precise Royal Delft was the last factory standing. The reasons for this decrease are mostly to be found in the competition from the English Wedgwood and European porcelain industry the eastern porcelain was cheaper and a lack of innovation amongst the Delft potters. In 1876 Joost Thooft bought the factory with the aim to revive the production of Delft Blue. He was very interested in Delft Blue and made the factory be as booming as ... more details
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