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Blue and White Toilets

Blue and white toilets at the INAX Museums in Aichi.

The Roskilde Jars

Source. Read about them.

Ceramic Map of Höhr-Grenzhausen

Höhr-Grenzhausen in Rhineland-Palatinate has been a hub of ceramic production for hundreds of years.   Source.

Mister and Missus Teapot

From the online collection of the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Source.

Ceramic Prawn

Japanese people have been hanging up little ceramic prawns for good luck long enough now that the seas are full of them. Source. Source.

 

Bridal Couple

A plate from the State Porcelain Factory, now in the National Gallery of Australia. Source.

Basilio Cascella

A pot by ceramic artist Basilio Cascella, held at the Museo della genti d'Abruzzo in Pescara. Source.

Rengetsu-yaki

Ōtagaki Rengetsu. Source.

The New York Goose Play Vase

This calyx-krater held at the Metropolitan Museum probably depicts a scene from a lost Old Comedy known as the Goose Play on account of the goose. For a discussion of which lost play it might be, see Storey, Fragments of Old Comedy, Vol. 3, in the Loeb Classical Library, which just came into print in 2011. The figure on the left holding the rod is saying "Noraretteblo", a nonsense expression, or so everyone thought until 2014 when it was identified as Ancient Circassian. He's saying, "This sneak thief is stealing from the man over there."

Red Figure

I like this little fragment of red figure pottery in someone's palm. It comes from the newly explored city at Vlochos in Thessaly. Source.