Throughout history and around the world, people have developed the art of forming clay to make ceramic objects,or pottery.

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So, if you want to designate anything it has to be by tangible things like pottery,particularly painted pottery,because it's easier to categorize.

所以 如果你想标注某段时期,你必须借助有形的事物,就像陶器,尤其是彩绘陶器,因为它们更容易分类

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You find Mycenaean elements, tools, other things, pottery particularly of a certain kind, all over the Mediterranean Sea.

你可以在一些发掘的工具及其他物品,特别是某种陶器上,发现迈锡尼文明的影子遍布地中海区域

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In addition to the serenity and fresh air, the island is dotted with shops that sell distinctive Mon pottery, a pleasing ochre-coloured pottery that has its roots in present-day Myanmar.

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Leather bookbindings, pigments for paints and majolica (white-glazed pottery) all came from the East, although the Venetians never succeeded in imitating the perfect ruby glaze of Iznik pottery.

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They have welcomed plans for a ceramic academy in Stoke-on-Trent "in principle" but urged one of the big pottery firms in the area to help to teach traditional pottery skills.

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