Monday, October 5, 2009

Two pots from Athens




I found a few photos on Flickr that someone took at the Byzantine Museum in Athens. The nice thing is that there are shots of the displays of Byzantine pottery. The bad thing is that they are low res photos, so I can't get good details on individual items. I love these two jugs, though. I tried replicating the one with the spout and painted decoration of eyes (which for some reason makes me think of an octopus) but the body collapsed while drying (actually, it started to slump on one side so I trashed it). I assume I let the clay get too wet while throwing. The other one, with the yellow stripes, I took a shot at yesterday. We'll see what happens...

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