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sketchbook drawings from museums

minoan jar
minoan pottery hole-mouthed jar from knossos, 1700-1550BC; in British Museum
cycladic
cycladic figurine, 2700-2400BC, carved from compacted volcanic ash; in British Museum
minoan pots
minoan pottery and cycladic marble, 3200-1500BC; in British Museum

top: Chinese ceramics, 12th Century; in Percival David Foundation. Bottom: predynastic Eygptian pottery (before 3100BC); in Petrie Museum
egyptian pot
Egyptian, from El Kab, dynasty XII (2025-1700BC); in Petrie Museum
bronze vessel with handle through neck, dynasty XXI - XXV (1069-684 BC); in Petrie Museum

predynastic Egyptian; in Petrie Museum 		Egyptian slab
Egyptian, balck basalt mythological text, approx 710 BC. "Damaged by later use as a millstone" - producing the markings that made it intersting to me! In British Museum
Korean full moon jar
Korean, 17th-18th Century AD, Choson Dynasty 'full moon' jar; in Victoria and Albert Museum 		shigaraki jar
Japanese, 1400-1450, from Shigaraki Kilns; in Victoria and Albert museum

Japanese. Left: cord marked earthenware vessel, 3500-500BC. Right: ritual vessel for burial, Stoneware, Sue Ware, about 500AD. From British Museum 		 
   
   

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