The coil construction method or coil building technique was used for millennia throughout the world to shape wet clay info desired forms. The process begins by rolling moist clay into long flexible coiled pieces, bending them into the shape of the item’s base and placing the coils atop one another step by step to increase its height and thickness. This permits the building of wider and taller walls without risking a collapse. Working with fresh clay allows one to apply minimum pressure and easily join coils and other elements of a vessel together while building the vessel desired. The paddle and anvil technique aids smoothing and finishing a coil-built item if a flat stone or wood “anvil” is placed beside the vessel’s inside wall and a curved or flat wood paddle lightly beats the outside wall to complete the article’s shape while ridding the clay of extra moisture. A potter may also apply a slip which can be in varying colors and may be used as decoration and/or to make the piece a less porous. Burnishing can further compact, polish, and smooth the outside of a pot by rubbing it with a hard tool of some kind to compresse the clay and make it less permeable.
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This black burnished earthenware terracotta juglet dates from the time the Jewish people returned from their exile in Babylonia to in the region called the Holy Land and the Levant during the Biblical Period. At this time in the Iron Age, coil construction was used to make utilitarian pottery often finished using the paddle-and-anvil method…
This black burnished earthenware juglet was made about the time the Jewish people returned from exile in Babylonia to Judea in the Holy Land (the Levant) during the Biblical Period (circa 600-300BCE). Then during the Iron Age, coil construction was used to make functional pieces and were finished using the paddle-and-anvil method to compact and…
The Biblical Period corresponds to the Middle to Late Bronze Age in the Holy Land (the Levant circa 2300-1200 BCE) when ancient pottery was made by molding wet clay into shapes (the coil construction method) and then finishing its shape by removing the clay’s excess moisture using the paddle-and-anvil technique) before firing. Made in Judea…
This Biblical Period ancient earthenware wine jug was made in the late Iron Age in the Holy Land of Judea (the Levant) about the time of the first Jewish Temple. A very high carinated piece, it was built using the coil construction method and the paddle and anvil technique. Like most pouring vessels, it was…
Small solid clay earthenware terracotta figures have been found in many Majapahit period sites primarily finished with carved and/or incised decorations. The powerful Majapahit Empire spanning the 13th-16th centuries was Hindu based, centered on the island of Java and extended from present-day Indonesia to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Southern-Thailand, and the Philippines. Trowulan was the empire’s…
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