Prudence M. Rice - Pottery Analysis, Second Edition: A Sourcebook

Pottery Analysis

A Sourcebook, Second Edition

Prudence M. Rice

The University of Chicago Press

Chicago and London

Prudence M. Rice was distinguished professor, department chair, and associate vice chancellor for research at Southern Illinois University Carbondale before retiring in 2011. Her twelve books include Vintage Moquegua and Space-Time Perspectives in Early Colonial Moquegua .

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

1987, 2015 by The University of Chicago

All rights reserved. Published 2015.

Printed in the United States of America

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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92320-8 (cloth)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92321-5 (paper)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92322-2 (e-book)

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226923222.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rice, Prudence M., author

Pottery analysis : a sourcebook / Prudence M. Rice. Second edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-226-92320-8 (cloth : alkaline paper) ISBN 978-0-226-92321-5 (paperback : alkaline paper) ISBN 978-0-226-92322-2 (e-book) 1. PotteryHistory. 2. PotteryExpertising. 3. PotteryAnalysis. 4. Ceramics. I. Title.

NK3780.R53 2015

666.39dc23

2014042601

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.481992 (Permanence of Paper).

In memory of Ralph, who was always on top of everything...

his worthy successors Lucy, Oliver, Ralston, Bosworth, and Duner...

and the current cadre: Poodie, Binz, Teddie, Schroeder,

and especially Harley and Spud sprawling on my desk.

Exceptionally fine pussycats, all.

A late Jomon jar from Japan

A late Yangshao funerary urn from northwest China

Reconstruction of early bank kilns found at Banpo, China

Painted Samarran-ware bowl from Hassuna, Iraq

Greek red-figure vase showing painters at work

Gaulish Samian-ware bowls, moldmade and red slipped

Moche portrait vessel, Peru

Late Classic Maya Resurrection Plate

Zapotec effigy urn, Oaxaca, Mexico

A Weeden Island pot from the McKeithen site, Florida

Zuni jar from New Mexico, painted black and red on white

The periodic table of the elements

Six common standards for classification of particle sizes

Ternary diagram of soils classification by particle size

The configuration of silica

The octahedral arrangement of aluminum, oxygen, and hydroxyls

The layer structure of kaolinite, smectite (montmorillonite), and mica

Hexagonal platelets of kaolinite

Particles of smectite (montmorillonite)

Laths of palygorskite

The structure of water

Accommodation of ions of different sizes in the hexagonal water structure

Model for the modification of the structure of water produced by a small cation (+)

Particle-size distribution of a hypothetical clay

Particle-size distribution of clay C-16 from Suwanee County, Florida

Raw ceramic materials and triaxial bodies

Relation between high and low sphericity and roundness (angularity) of grains

Idealized diagram of a hypothetical clay/water mass

Idealized magnified cross-section of water and particle arrangements in a hypothetical clay/water mass during drying

S-shaped crack on the base of a small wheel-thrown ashtray

Particle-orientation effects

Weight loss of four clays with heating

Thermal expansion of a whiteware

Differential thermal analysis (DTA) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) of a porcelain insulator body

Linear firing shrinkage and rate of shrinkage (per 100C) curves for a kaolin clay

Generalized differential thermal analysis (DTA) curves for clay minerals

Pyrometric cones used in gauging a hypothetical firing

Stresses induced in glazes during cooling

Crazing of a glaze under tensile stress

A brickyard in highland Guatemala

Foot trampling clay in Nabuel, Tunisia

Potter in Margaurites, Crete, adding a large coil segment to a flowerpot

Potter in Chinautla, Guatemala, drawing up and smoothing a neck coil on a tinaja , or water jar

Coil fracture on a sherd of a vessel built by spiral coiling

A woman belonging to a potter caste in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, making griddles by paddling clay over the base of a water storage jar

Potters turning devices and wheels

A Muslim potter in Jhanwar, Rajasthan, India, turning a traditional stick wheel

Throwing a pot on the wheel

Rilling, the characteristic undulating ridges of a wheel-thrown vessel

Characteristic shallow dimpling showing the use of an anvil

Burnished surfaces

Interior of a sherd showing the striations left by scraping

A Swift Creek Complicated Stamped sherd showing overall surface texturing

Punctation

Incising and excising

A large round updraft kiln at Yahuay, Moquegua valley, Peru

A simple open-topped updraft kiln

Two versions of saggars (or setters) from China

Kilns

A bonfire firing of water jars in Chinautla, Guatemala

Potters in Gogunda, Rajasthan, India, rushing to begin a firing

Open pit kiln at Musazi, Pakistan

The rapid schedules of three Pueblo firings of smudged ware

Model of pottery distribution relationships

A rural Muslim potter and his wife travel with a bullock cart loaded with pots for sale in western Rajasthan, India

A pottery stall in the main bus terminal market in Guatemala

Survivorship curves of Shipibo-Conibo pottery, Peru

Model of different methods for ordering objects

Olla as a vessel shape category

Multidimensional scaling plot of 94 features of 25 black-on-red glazed pottery types from Puebla, Mexico

Major subdivisions of pottery vessel shapes

Lip and rim on various bowl and plate forms

Vessel proportions (as ratio of height to diameter) and shape categories

Template for measuring the orifice of a rim sherd

Formula for calculating radius and circumference from a chord

Geometric solids and surfaces as references for vessel shape description

Reference points and line segments for describing vessel shapes

The summed cylinders method of estimating the volume of a vessel

Characteristic points of a vessel profile

Comparison chart for estimating various quantities of different sizes and shapes of particles in a sherd cross-section

The electromagnetic spectrum

Color terms based on mixing with white or black

Comparison of dark cores in coarse and fine clays

Model of a color solid, simplified into a cylinder, from which the Munsell color charts are drawn

Three-dimensional model of the Munsell color system

The Munsell soil color charts

Schematic diagram of a petrographic microscope: S = specimen