Black glaze ware

Wolff, S. R., Liddy, D. J., Newton, G. W. A., Robinson, Y. J., and Smith, R. J. (1986). Classical and Hellenistic black glaze ware in the Mediterranean - a study by epithermal neutron-activation analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 13 245-259. 

Figure 5. Black glaze ware from Hesi fitting the same Aegean pattern, except GZ42 which is a yellow paste with elemental pattern slightly different from the Aegean pattern...

The next largest group was that of the Black Glaze (actually a shiny slip) ware, also known as Attic ware (Figure 5). The pattern for this... 

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-... 

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

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