Microsoft PowerPoint - aat_in_depth.pptx

5/4/2019

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Introduction to the AAT

revised May 2019 For educational purposes

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earthenware

UF: earthen ware

SN:

Pottery with a porous body,

fired below 1200 degrees Centigrade. It is not vitrified, and must be glazed to render it nonporous.BT: pottery (object genre)NT: barbotineNT: creamware

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Flat display is confusing to those unfamiliar with thesaurus codes and jargon Unknown Chinese. Camel made for a tomb; Tang Dynasty (618-907); earthenware with sancai (tricolor) glaze; height: 23 inches (58.4 cm); Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); 1963-5-1; Gift of Rodman A. Heeren in memory of his mother, Fernanda Wanamaker Munn, 1963

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