Clay Collection (page 3)

Potters throwing clay 1836
Potters in the act of throwing clay. Date: 1836

Kaolin manufacture of ceramics
Kaolin manufacture, near St. Austell in Cornwall, clay works with working water wheel. Date: 19th century

PAINTING POTTERY / 1930S
Pottery is painted by hand Date: 1930s

VASES MADE
Vases and jugs being manufactured- one lady looks intent on smashing them Date: 1930s

DALMATIAN / SOWEST MYSTIC
CHAMPION TANTIVVY SOWEST MYSTIC Owned by Clay. Date: 1960

USING POTTERS WHEEL
Using the potters wheel - the beginnings of a tall pot. Date: 1965

CHINA CLAY / DOCKYARD
Transporting China Clay from Charlestown, near St Austell, Cornwall, to the docks. Discovered in the UK in the 1740s, St Austell is one of the main sources of China Clay. Date: 1930s

CHINA CLAY / UNLOADED
Shooting a lorry-load of china clay into the hold of a waiting steamer. Discovered in the UK in the 1740s, St. Austell is one of the main sources of China Clay. Date: 1930s

POTTERY / ANCIENT CHINA
Pottery production in ancient China - extracting the clay. (1 of 4)

VICTORIAS SUPPORTERS
Victoria depicted with her loyal lion - the workman with his clay pipe and side of beef - and her unicorn - the upper class with its cigars and champagne Date: 1887

GERMAN PRETZEL SELLER
Selling pretzels, Hamburg - note the lady smoking a long clay pipe Date: circa 1830

CONCEPTS / LIFE
The Egyptian ram-god Khnum is the creator of life, which he forms from clay on his potters wheel, while Thoth measures the span of the persons life

John Ainslies tile machine 1846
John Ainslies tile machine. Date: 1846

Abandoned kiln and buildings at Southorns pipeworks Broseley, Shropshire - now The Broseley Pipe Museum. The kiln which held between 75, 000 and 100, 000 pipes in each firing

Account book and clay pipes found at Southorns pipeworks
Account book and clay pipes found in the workshops of Southorns pipeworks, Broseley, Shropshire - now The Broseley Pipe Museum Date: 1987

Amphorae pots, Djerba, Tunisia
Stacked earthenware pots or amphorae on market stall, Djerba, Tunisia Date: 1987

Earliest known carved heads in Syria, at Tell Brak
The earliest known carved heads in Syria, found at Tell Brak. This page from the Illustrated London News in May 1939, reporting on excavations at Brak

Minoan art. Crete. Phaistos Disc, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium B.C.). Side A. Fired clay

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - Ashanti implements and weapons
A. Sanko, musical instrument B. Cushion C. Ashanti Ministers state bag D. Fantee stool, cut out of solid block of cotton wood E. and F. War Greegrees or charms made of leather and straw worked in G

The Glozel Alphabet Tablets
A large clay tablet from Glozel, near Vichy in France inscribed with alphabetical signs. The tablets were said to date back to the Neolithic period

Pre-Incan. Tolita Culture (500-500 AD). Ceramic figure. From
Pre-Columbian art. Pre-Incan. Tolita Culture (500-500 AD). From Ecuador. Ceramic figure. Museo del Banco central. Quito. Ecuador

Old Biskra, Algeria
An elderly man stands next to a house made of clay-like materials, on the corner of a street in old Biskra. Date: circa 1910s

Rain Sculpture in Boulder Clay, Bray Head - a close in view of whirled effect in the exposed rock. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Wicklow; Bray). Date: circa early 1900s

Kieselguhr Industry at Toome, Digging the Bann Clay. Grants Factory - a view of two men digging clay and one using a barrow outside. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)

Early Christian art. Clay stamps. 6th-7th century. Byzantine
Early Christian art. Greece. Clay stamps. 6th-7th century. Byzantine Museum. Athens. Greece. Date: 20070529

Mesopotamia. White calcite. Cylinder seal. From Mesopotamia. Late Uruk. Early Jemdet Nasr Period. 3200-3000BC. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Early writing. Pictographs drawn. Clay tablet. Administrativ
Mesopotamia. Early writing. Pictographs drawn. Clay tablet. Administrative text. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Mesopotamia. Clay foundation peg. 1st Dynasty of Lagash. 2400Bc. From Bad-Tibira. Iraq. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Prehistory. Bronze Age. Vessel. Bell Beaker. From Aiguafreda
Prehistory. Bronze Age. Vessel. Bell Beaker. Iberian Peninsula. From Aiguafreda, Catalonia. Episcopal Museum. Vic. Spain

Asia Minor. Ancient Art. Maiden in Wedding adornment. 100-50 BC. Kymi (Aeolis). The Antikensammlung Berlin (Berlin antiquities collection)

Ceramics. Middle ages. Germany
Ceramic pot, 13th century. Yellow clay bowl, Cologne or Frechen (Germany), 14th century. Glazed pottery, Rhineland, 13th century. Pieces loaned by the Museum of Cologne. German Historical Museum

Mycenaean art. Greece. Clay tablet with inscriptions on Mycenaean Linear B script. National Archaeological Museum. Athens

Clay tablet inscribed with mycenaean Linear B script. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Transporting China Clay from St Austell, Cornwall, to the docks. Discovered in the UK in the 1740s, St Austell is one of the main sources of China Clay. Date: 1930s

Clay Pigeon Shoot
A well-to-do shooting party, aiming at clay pigeons in the snow. Date: early 1930s

Anton Lang - German Studio potter and Actor - Oberammergau
Signed postcard of Anton Lang (18751938) was a German studio potter and an actor in the Oberammergau Passion Play. He played the role of Jesus Christ in 1900, 1910, and 1922

Interior of a Dindi Village, Benin, West Africa - note the spherical clay container on the left - used for storing water. Date: circa 1908

Xipe Totec. Clay sculpture. Teotihuacan culture. Sculpture. Proc: MEXICO. PUEBLA

Horse puddler used during Australian gold rush
The first horse-powered rotary puddler in use at Pennyweight Flat, Ballarat, Victoria, during the Australian gold rush. Puddling involved breaking up clay soil containing gold

Bubbly by John Hastings Turner with music by Philip Braham
Flyer for another production of Bubbly by John Hastings Turner with music by Philip Braham. The image is the same as the previous tour with a lady pierrot clown sitting on a large bubble holding a

A clay reconstruction of the face of Piltdown Man
A clay reconstruction of the face of the paleoanthropological hoax Piltdown Man, discovered in the grounds of Barkham Manor at Piltdown, East Sussex

Double-bottomed cups with geometric incision. 700-301 BC
Age of metals. Iron Age. Talayotic culture. Double-bottomed cups with geometric incision. 700-301 BC. From the Cerro de Biniet, Mahon (Minorca, Balearic Islands). National Archaeological Museum

Lorna Holder photographing the front of a Egyptian novelty shop, with large brass, cooper clay, pots and bowls. Date: 1978

Anthropoid clay coffin. 12th century BC
Anthropoid clay coffin. Beth Shean. 12th century BC. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel

Clay ossuary. Haderah. In form of a house, used for secondary burial. Chalcolithic period, 4th millennium BC. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel

Octagonal clay prism (ca. 1100 BC) - annals of the Assyrian
The Octagonal clay prism (ca. 1100 BC) with the annals of the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I (1114-1076 B.C.). This text spoke of a campaign of king Tiglath-pileser against the land of ?atti

Valley of Mexico culture. Ceramic vessel decorated - incised
Pre-Columbian art. Mesoamerica. Valley of Mexico culture. Ceramic vessel decorated with incised geometric motifs. 14 x 17, 5 cm (diameter). Private collection

Pre-Incan. Cuasmal Culture (500-1500 AD). From Ecuador. Cera
Pre-Columbian art. Pre-Incan. Cuasmal Culture (500-1500 AD). From Ecuador. Ceramic vessel. 10x 18, 5 cm (diameter). Private collection

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