Pottery
UNESCO-recognized Turkish artist to compile 7,000 Çini designs in book
A UNESCO-recognized "Çini" artist hailing from Türkiye's western province of Kütahya, will immortalize nearly 7,000 intricate patterns into comprehensive books, he says.
Çini is a traditional Turkish art form of ceramic tile painting, involving the decoration of ceramic surfaces with intricate and distinctive patterns and designs using colorful glazes.
Ancient Mesopotamian bricks record 3,000-year-old geomagnetic anomaly
Heating & cooling: Firing the bricks
Christie’s to auction art of Islamic, Indian works
Christie's has announced the Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Oriental Rugs and Carpets, a live auction at Christie's on April 27. The sale features striking examples of manuscripts, paintings, ceramics, metalwork, and carpets.
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Fanning the embers of a dying craft
Andreas Dorgiomanolakis shapes a terracotta pot in one of the last surviving ceramic workshops in Thrapsano, a village in Crete that had around 150 such workshops up until the 1970s. In the business since the age of 15, Dorgiomanolakis laments the lack of interest among the younger generations to take up the craft. "I fell in love with it through my grandfather," he told the AMNA.
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4th Century BC Greek Coin Recovered in Croatia
Pottery fragments were also found
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Incredible video of the US Embassy before the Greece-Turkey game: “Let’s go Greece!” (video)
Apparently, nobody can resist Giannis’ blue and white jersey
Iran fights to recover stolen antiquities
Decorated glazed bricks almost 3,000 years old are on display at Iran's National Museum after a four-decade search disrupted by war and an international legal battle.
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Arter presents retrospective exhibition of Turkish ceramic artist
Turkey's well-known ceramic artist, Candeğer Furtun, says that her artworks tell a story as a whole and that leaving any one of them would mean as if the story is missing a page.
"They all tell my story; they depict my life," she said.
Ceramic pieces found in Myra suggest ancient site older than expected
The 5,000-year-old ceramic pieces that have been found during excavations in the ancient city of Myra in the southern province of Antalya's Demre district took the history of the ancient city 2,000 years back.
8,500-year-old skeletons discovered in northwestern Turkey
Residents also found pieces of ancient ceramics in the yard