Black-and-red glaze

Earthenware is made from red earthenware clay and is fired at fairly low temperatures, typically between 950 and 1050°C. It is porous when not glazed, relatively coarse, and red or buffcolored, even black after firing. The term pottery is often used to signify earthenware. The major earthenware products are bricks, tiles, and terra cotta vessels. Earthenware dating back to between 7000 and 8000 bce has been found, for example, in Catal Hiiyiik in Anatolia (today s Turkey). 

Jet Ware. Pottery-ware, chiefly tea-pots, having a red clay body and a black, manganese-type, glaze (cf. jet-enamelled ware). 

Examples have been sometimes discovered in this country, and also in various other places, of glazed Roman pottery of a much paler red than the Samian, and altogether inferior to that celebrated ware. Other rare varieties are grey, yellow, brown, orange, or black j these wares sometimes have a lustrous glaze which shows the color of the paste, and in other examples the glaze has various hueB of its own. 

Homan Black Lustrous Pottery, made of any tenacious clay in the neighborhood of the manufacturer, varies in its color from a rich deep black to a slate or Olive hu. The paste, in many instances, is red, grey, or even whits the black tint of the ware being due to the glaze, which is Instrous and has a metalloid aspect. Many vessels of this class are of small size and simple in form, as in Vis-... 

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