scholarly journals Capture, Modeling, and Recognition of Expert Technical Gestures in Wheel-Throwing Art of Pottery

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Manitsaris ◽  
A. Glushkova ◽  
F. Bevilacqua ◽  
F. Moutarde
Keyword(s):  
Wheel Throwing

scholarly journals Orientation Patterns Characteristic for the Structure of the Ceramic Body of Wheel-thrown Pottery

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (2) ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Richard Thér ◽  
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Petr Toms ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Microscopy ◽  
Ceramic Body ◽  
Wheel Throwing

The described analysis follows recent findings related to the orientation of particles and voids in a ceramic body that is characteristic for wheel-made pottery. The analysis is focused on the potential variability within wheel-throwing method and is based on an experimental collection that combines the factors of the experience and motor habits of individual potters and the vessel shape. The orientation of the components of a ceramic body is calculated for two sections: radial and tangential. The sections are analysed using optical microscopy. The calculated orientation and alignment reflect the throwing style of potters using the same forming method.

A RE-EXAMINATION OF EARLY WHEEL POTTING IN CRETE

2013 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 31-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Jeffra
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Geographical Distance ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Experimental Type ◽  
Technological Transition ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Wheel Throwing ◽  
Forming Methods

The manner in which Minoan potters first employed the pottery wheel has become a matter of some debate. A growing body of work has taken a sceptical approach to the transition from hand-building to wheel-throwing techniques in a number of contexts, finding that the idea of a technological transition of this nature is not supported by the ceramic evidence. Although a small number of publications have addressed this topic as it relates to Minoan Crete, in light of the evidence from contemporary areas around the Mediterranean and Near East it has become necessary to establish firmly what types of techniques and methods were being used as potters first employed this tool. In order to assess the types of primary forming techniques used by potters during the periods between Middle Minoan IB (when the wheel was first regularly used) and Late Minoan IA (by which time vessels of all sizes were regularly formed with some type of rotation), an experimental type set was produced. Analysis was conducted by correlating the macroscopic features produced with specific forming methods, and then comparing those features against material from Knossos, Palaikastro and Myrtos–Pyrgos. The results of that comparison challenge the established notion that potters had developed wheel-throwing skills during these early periods. Instead, a more complex picture emerges which reveals a process of gradual acquisition of combination techniques (wheel and coils). The pattern of uptake indicates a level of cohesion across the potting community of central and eastern Crete, irrespective of the geographical distance between the three sites studied.

scholarly journals Identifying Wheel-Thrown Vases in Middle Minoan Crete? Preliminary Analysis of Experimental Replicas of Plain Handleless Conical Cups from Protopalatial Phaistos

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (2) ◽  
pp. 201-216
Author(s):  
Ilaria Caloi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ceramic Material ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Minoan Crete ◽  
Technological Study ◽  
Wheel Throwing

Recent work in Middle Bronze Age Crete has revealed that most Protopalatial or First Palace period pottery is produced through the use of a combination of coil-building and the wheel, i.e., wheelcoiling. Experimental work conducted on pottery from Minoan sites of Northern and Eastern Crete (e.g., Knossos, Myrtos Pyrgos, Palaikastro) has indeed determined that Minoan potters did not develop the skills required to adopt the wheel-throwing technique. However, my recent technological study of Protopalatial ceramic material from Middle Minoan IIA (19th century BC) deposits from the First Palace at Phaistos, in Southern Crete, has revealed that though pottery was produced by the wheelcoiling techniques, yet other forming techniques were practised too. In this paper I present a preliminary analysis of experimental replicas of MM IIA Phaistian plain handleless conical cups, manufactured on the potter’s wheel using three different forming techniques: wheel-pinching, wheel-coiling, and throwing-off-the-hump. This analysis will proffer answers to several questions on the use of the potter’s wheel in Middle Bronze Age Crete and opens the possibility that at MM IIA Phaistos there co-existed potters who had developed skills to employ different forming techniques on the wheel, including possibly that of throwing-off-the-hump.

Tradition and innovation in pottery forming technology: wheel-throwing at Middle Minoan Knossos

1999 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 101-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Knappett
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Technical Development ◽  
Forming Technology ◽  
Technical Factors ◽  
Wheel Throwing ◽  
Internal Evolution

This paper examines ceramic evidence from Middle Minoan Knossos in an attempt to chart the introduction and development of wheel-throwing technology in Minoan pottery. The technique of wheel-throwing comes into its own in Middle Minoan I B, coeval with the construction of the first palaces and a number of other major changes. Although there are some indications that there could have been some degree of internal evolution towards this point, it also appears that outside contacts with the Near East may have contributed to the innovation process. The main aim is to elucidate the dynamics of choice that led to the adoption and subsequent development of the wheel-throwing innovation. Whilst the use of the wheel is generally considered as a technical development, it is argued here that, in the initial stages, its adoption by certain Minoan potters was as much influenced by socio-political as by technical factors.

Wheel-throwing in digital space using number-theoretic approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gautam Kumar ◽  
Naveen Kr. Sharma ◽  
Partha Bhowmick
Keyword(s):  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Wheel Throwing

scholarly journals Prosopomorphic vessels from Moesia Superior

Starinar ◽  
2008 ◽  
pp. 135-153
Author(s):  
Snezana Nikolic ◽  
Angelina Raickovic
Keyword(s):  
Protective Role ◽  
Technological Characteristics ◽  
The Family ◽  
Tangible Evidence ◽  
Wheel Throwing

The prosopomorphic vessels from Moesia Superior had the form of beakers varying in outline but similar in size. They were wheel-thrown, mould-made or manufactured by using a combination of wheel-throwing and mould-made appliqu?s. Given that face vessels are considerably scarcer than other kinds of pottery, more than fifty finds from Moesia Superior make an enviable collection. In this and other provinces face vessels have been recovered from military camps, civilian settlements and necropolises, which suggests that they served more than one purpose. It is generally accepted that the faces-masks gave a protective role to the vessels, be it to protect the deceased or the family, their house and possessions. More than forty of all known finds from Moesia Superior come from Viminacium, a half of that number from necropolises. Although tangible evidence is lacking, there must have been several local workshops producing face vessels. The number and technological characteristics of the discovered vessels suggest that one of the workshops is likely to have been at Viminacium, an important pottery-making centre in the second and third centuries.

Ceramics A Basic Lesson in Wheel Throwing

Design ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
E. M. Winterbourne
Keyword(s):  
Wheel Throwing
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