Young artists demonstrate how to create a pinch pot in this video. Each step is carefully shown and described. What a fantastic resource to use for your ceramics class!

Zounds! Who'da thunk it? Colors can be deadly. Viewers learn about the dangers of white (lead), green (radium and cupric hydrogen arsenic), and orange (uranium oxide) pigments used in clothing, ceramics, and home decor.

From the Princeton University Art Museum, this page takes you step by step, via video examples, through the process of making a traditional Chinese Cizhou ceramic vessel.

This video [6:39] discusses the Reception Room (Qa'a), Ottoman period, 1119 a.h. / 1707 a.d., Damascus, Syria, poplar, gesso relief with gold and tin leaf, glazes and paint; cypress, poplar, walnut, black mulberry, mother-of-pearl,...

This lesson will explore ceramics and textiles as significant artistic objects in Islamic culture.

Watch the video of Robert Jacobsen talking about the Han Dynasty, focusing especially on trade during that time. You can also click on pieces of art on the left of the page to get more information.

In this video [2:39] Met curator Isabel Stunkel on precaution in Hippopotamus dating from Egypt's Middle Kingdom, c. 1961-1878 B.C.E. This well-formed statuette of a hippopotamus [called "William"] demonstrates the Egyptian artist's...