ceramics - events| c. 7000 BC | Europe, Asia | The first pottery is made, in Eurasia. | | c. 6000 BC | Middle East | At Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia, southeast of the modern Turkish city of Konya, one of the oldest towns is thriving. Pottery is in use here, as is an advanced artificial agricultural irrigation system. Çatal Hüyük is one of the largest Neolithic sites in the Near and Middle East, with a sophisticated trade and urban life. | | c. 3500 BC | Sumeria | The potter's wheel is in use in the manufacture of Sumerian pottery, giving it a more symmetrical style. | | 1780 BC | Crete | Sophisticated inlay is used to decorate faience (glazed earthenware) at Knossos in Crete. The most famous example is the so-called Town Mosaic which shows houses of considerable sophistication, some with three storeys. | | c. 750 BC | Greece | The Greek ‘geometric’ style of pottery gives way to an ‘orientalizing’ style, which introduces new motifs, particularly fantastic animals. | | c. 530 BC | Greece | The golden age of Athenian vase pottery begins, in which the pottery is distinguished by red figures, left in the natural colour of the clay, on black. The Greek vase painters Euphronius and Euthymides are working at this time. | | c. 13 | Roman Empire, England | The Portland Vase (probably made in Greece for a Roman and now in the British Museum, London, England) dates from this time. Made of opaque glass, it is a small amphora on which there are carved cameos depicting mythological scenes. It is one of the very finest pieces of Roman glass. | | 1148 | Sicily | A Byzantine mosaic of Christ Pantocrator is included in the apse of Cefalù Cathedral in Sicily. | | 1743 | Italy | The Capo-di-Monte porcelain factory is set up in Naples, Italy. It specializes in soft-paste figurines. | | 1759 | UK | English pottery manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood leases the Ivy House works in Burslem, Staffordshire, where he will perfect and pioneer many new pottery techniques. |
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