Renaissance Pottery! Final Project.

I did my project on renaissance pottery, creating my own figure out of clay to reconstruct a similar piece. Indian renaissance pottery tended to be lower temperature and unglazed, just like my model. This was typically until the modern times. They would fire the red clay and with the reduction of oxegyn the clay would turn black. These renaissance potters revolved around the Native American familys in the Southwest. The Native American Renaissance pottery usually included fine line painting and "corrugated whiteware".  All different groups designed similar yet different things.  One colony used mostly red and black clay, that would be the San Idlefonso and Santa Clara groups Taos and San Juan made lovely clays for pots.  Most colonies or tribes coated their pottery with pine pitch. Pine pitch was a fnial coating to keep the pottery stronger. European: Ceramics in northern areas first appeared in about 4000 BC and, except for a brief period during the Roman occupation, continued the low temperature unglazed handbuilt tradition until the twelfth century. Renaissance pottery typically were pitchers and pots for all types of things.  Being made of things such as red and black clay, they did not glaze these creations.  They were not "easy" to make but it was a popular hobby that many people involved theirselves in.