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    This document provides a timeline overviewing the history of ceramics from 29,000 BCE to the 1960s. Some of the key events include the earliest clay tiles being made in Mesopotamia and India in 14,000 BCE, the invention of the potter's wheel in Mesopotamia between 6,000-4,000 BCE, and the birth of famous Native American potter Maria Martinez in 1887 who was known for her black ware pottery. The timeline also highlights innovations like the development of glazes in ancient Egypt and China that expanded ceramic decoration techniques.

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    This document provides a timeline overviewing the history of ceramics from 29,000 BCE to the 1960s. Some of the key events include the earliest clay tiles being made in Mesopotamia and India in 14,000 BCE, the invention of the potter's wheel in Mesopotamia between 6,000-4,000 BCE, and the birth of famous Native American potter Maria Martinez in 1887 who was known for her black ware pottery. The timeline also highlights innovations like the development of glazes in ancient Egypt and China that expanded ceramic decoration techniques.

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    This document provides a timeline overviewing the history of ceramics from 29,000 BCE to the 1960s. Some of the key events include the earliest clay tiles being made in Mesopotamia and India in 14,000 BCE, the invention of the potter's wheel in Mesopotamia between 6,000-4,000 BCE, and the birth of famous Native American potter Maria Martinez in 1887 who was known for her black ware pottery. The timeline also highlights innovations like the development of glazes in ancient Egypt and China that expanded ceramic decoration techniques.

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    This document provides a timeline overviewing the history of ceramics from 29,000 BCE to the 1960s. Some of the key events include the earliest clay tiles being made in Mesopotamia and India in 14,000 BCE, the invention of the potter's wheel in Mesopotamia between 6,000-4,000 BCE, and the birth of famous Native American potter Maria Martinez in 1887 who was known for her black ware pottery. The timeline also highlights innovations like the development of glazes in ancient Egypt and China that expanded ceramic decoration techniques.

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    1887

    Famous Native American potter


    Maria Martinez, known for
    1600s black ware pottery is born.
    575 BCE Baked-clay bricks and tiles
    The glazed brick are made in colonial Virginia
    Ishtar Gate is created and Pennsylvania.
    as a gate to the inner
    city of Babylon.
    800s
    Tin-glazed pottery
    originates in Iraq.
    620-480 BCE 1800s
    Greece’s black-figure pottery is The Arts & Crafts
    10,000-7,000 BCE produced. Red-figure pottery movement spurs
    Jomon pottery is created follows after. handcrafted pottery in
    with hand-building both the US and the UK.
    techniques in Japan. 1500s
    Delftware begins to
    be produced in the
    Netherlands.

    14,000 BCE
    First clay tiles are made 6,000-4,000 BCE 1723
    in Mesopotamia Early form of the potter’s Rococo figurine sculptor, 1960s
    and India. wheel is invented in Franz Anton Bustelli, is A surge of US ceramic
    Mesopotamia. born. studios open with artist
    like Beatrice Wood and
    618–907 Robert Arneson at the
    Porcelain is invented forefront.
    1759
    during the Chinese
    Josiah Wedgwood
    T’ang dynasty.
    opened his first pottery
    factory in central 1925
    England. Nigerian potter Ladi
    221–207 BCE Kwali, known for her
    The Terra Cotta Army is hybrid of traditional
    created during the reign African with western
    of Shihuangdi, the founder studio pottery is born.
    of China’s Qin dynasty.

    2700 BCE
    Egyptians discover glaze.
    29,000–25,000 BCE
    By 1500 BCE, vibrant blue and
    The oldest known ceramic
    green glazes were being used.
    article in the world, Venus of
    Dolní Věstonice, is created. A Brief History of Ceramics

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