VINTAGE UNIVERSAL STATUARY INDIAN BRAVE STATUE

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FOR YOUR COLLECTING PLEASURE!! UNIVERSAL STATUARY CORP. CIRCA 1970 INDIAN BRAVE STATUE Check Our Store, Patton Alley at for new & exciting items! VINTAGE INDIAN BRAVE FIGURINE By Universal Statuary Corp, circa 1970 We proudly present for your collecting pleasure a unique figurine of an Indian warrior who looks ready for battle. He has two feathers in his long black hair, is dressed in buckskins and has moccasins on his feet. T is a long red Indian blanket on his left arm and a bow in his hand. His right hand is reaching over his shoulder for an arrow in his quiver. The quiver is full of multi-colored arrows and has a beautiful design. This extremely well detailed warrior stands approximately 14" tall and has felt covering on his base. The back of the statue says Universal Statuary Corp©, Chicago , Ill , 1970 and 481. Our Indian Brave is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks or visible repairs. He would make a delightful addition to your collection. Brief History of Pottery The production of pottery is one of the most ancient arts. The oldest known body of pottery dates from the Jomon period (from about 10,500 to 400 BC) in Japan ; and even the earliest Jomon ceramics exhibit a unique sophistication of technique and design. Excavations in the Near East have revealed that primitive fired-clay vessels were made t more than 8,000 years ago. Potters were working in Iran by about 5500 BC, and earthenware was probably being produced even earlier on the Iranian high plateau. Chinese potters had developed characteristic techniques by about 5000 BC. In the New World many pre-Columbian American cultures developed highly artistic pottery traditions. After general sections on basic pottery types and decorating techniques this article focuses on the development of Western pottery since the beginning of the Renaissance. For detailed treatment of ancient Western and non-Western pottery, see Chinese art and architecture; Egypt , ancient; Greek art; Islamic art and architecture; Japanese art and architecture; Korean art; Mesopotamia ; Minoan art; Persian art and architecture; pre-Columbian art and architecture. TYPES OF WARESPottery comprises three distinctive types of wares. The first type, earthenware, has been made following virtually the same techniques since ancient times; only in the modern era has mass production brought changes in materials and methods. Earthenware is basically composed of clay--often blended clays--and baked hard, the degree of hardness depending on the intensity of the heat. After the invention of glazing, earthenwares were coated with glaze to render them waterproof; sometimes glaze was applied decoratively. It was found that, when fired at great heat, the clay body became nonporous. This second type of pottery, called stoneware, came to be preferred for domestic use.The third type of pottery is a Chinese invention that appeared when feldspathic material in a fusible state was incorporated in a stoneware composition. The ancient Chinese called decayed feldspar kaolin (meaning "high place," w it was originally found); this substance is known in the West as china clay. Petuntse, or china stone, a less decayed, more fusible feldspathic material, was also used in Chinese porcelain; it forms a white cement that binds together the particles of less fusible kaolin. Significantly, the Chinese have never felt that high-quality porcelain must be either translucent or white. Two types of porcelain evolved: "true" porcelain, consisting of a kaolin hard-paste body, extremely glassy and smooth, produced by high temperature firing, and soft porcelain, invariably translucent and lead glazed, produced from a composition of ground glass and other ingredients including white clay and fired at a low temperature. The latter was widely produced by 18th-century European potters.It is believed that porcelain was first made by Chinese potters toward the end of the Han period (206 BC-AD 220), when pottery generally beca... read more

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