bucchero

(noun)

A type of dark grey Etruscan terra cotta pottery.

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Examples of bucchero in the following topics:

  • Etruscan Ceramics

    • Bucchero pottery, developed around 675BCE, was an Etruscan invention.
    • A finished bucchero surface imitated the appearance of metal.
    • Bucchero goods have been found as far east as Egypt and Syria.
    • This is type of bucchero ware is known today as bucchero sottile, or delicate bucchero, and the thin delicate walls further reinforced the material's imitation of metal.
    • Decoration on bucchero was often limited to abstracted designs and did not usually include figures.
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