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Introduction
Kinds, processes, and techniques
- Kinds of pottery
  - Earthenware
  - Stoneware
  - Porcelain
- Forming processes and techniques
  - Shaping the clay
  - Drying, turning, and firing
- Decorating processes and techniques
  - Impressing and stamping
  - Incising, sgraffito, carving, and piercing
  - Slip decorating
  - Burnishing and polishing
  - Decorative glazing
  - Painting
  - Transfer printing
- Marking
Western pottery
- Ancient Near East and Egypt
- Ancient Aegean and Greece
  - Bronze Age
    - Early Bronze Age (c. 3000–2000 bce)
    - Middle Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 bce)
    - Late Bronze Age (c. 1580–1100 bce)
  - Early Iron Age
    - Geometric style
    - Period of Oriental influence (c. 725–c. 600 bce)
  - Attic black-figure and red-figure
    - Archaic period (c. 750–c. 480 bce)
    - Classical period (c. 480–c. 330 bce)
    - Hellenistic period (c. 330–c. 30 bce)
- Etruscan and Roman
  - Etruria
  - Roman Empire
- Islamic
  - Early Islamic
    - Umayyad
    - ʾAbbāsid
    - Sāmānid
  - Egyptian
  - Mesopotamia and Persia
    - 11th to 15th century
    - Later Persian
  - Syrian
  - Turkish
- European: to the end of the 18th century
  - Byzantium
  - Spain
    - Lustreware
    - Other tin-glazed ware
    - Porcelain
  - Italy
    - Majolica
    - Sgraffito wares
    - Porcelain
  - France and Belgium
    - Lead-glazed wares of the 16th century
    - Faience, or tin-glazed ware
    - Porcelain
  - Germany and Austria
    - Stoneware
    - Tin-glazed ware
    - Porcelain
  - The Netherlands
  - Britain
    - Tin-glazed ware
    - 17th-century slipware
    - Stoneware
    - 18th-century developments
    - Porcelain
  - Scandinavia
  - Switzerland and Russia
  - Colonial America
- 19th century
  - Britain
    - Porcelain
    - Stoneware and earthenware
  - The European continent
  - The United States
- 20th century
  - Pottery factories
  - The artist-potter
East Asian and Southeast Asian pottery
- China
  - Tang dynasty (618–907 ce)
  - Song dynasty (960–1279 ce)
  - Yuan dynasty (1206–1368)
  - Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
    - Reign of the Xuande emperor (1425–35)
    - Reign of the Chenghua emperor (1464–87)
    - Reigns of the Hongzhi and Zhengde emperors (1487–1521)
    - Reign of the Jiajing emperor (1521–1566/67)
    - Reigns of the Longqing and Wanli emperors (1567–1620)
    - Provincial and export wares
  - Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12)
    - Underglaze blue and red
    - Coloured glazes
    - Overglaze colours
    - European influence and the export trade
    - 19th and 20th centuries
- Korea
- Japan
  - Kamakura and Muromachi periods (1192–1573)
  - Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573–1600)
  - Edo period (1603–1867)
  - 19th and 20th centuries
- Thailand and Annam
American Indian pottery
- North America
- Central America
- South America

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