"One of the most distinctive features of Chinese bronze craftsmanship is the use of piece-mold casting. Unlike Western traditions, which relied on forging and lost-wax casting, ancient Chinese ...

For the first time, scientists have found definitive proof that wine was drunk at the ancient city of Troy, according to a ...

Driving the news: Lugo's latest pottery exhibition ... It's next to an ancient Greek vessel used for mixing water and wine.

This wine jug (oinochoe) would have been used by ... The jug itself is of black-glazed pottery and although an everyday item it still shows a careful degree of attention with a small sculpted ...

Bronze - Late Shang dynasty, about 1100 BC This form of wine vessel was adapted from a simple pottery flask, a design echoed in the twisted rope-like handle. When lifted off the body, the lid ...