Several outbreaks of inventions (Middle East, Turkey …), the first events are to the seventh millennium, coexist. Occurred during the Neolithic pottery is an effective way to study the various cultural faces. Remarkable painted decorations are made in Mesopotamia  and Egypt, Minoan Crete and Mycenae. From the sixth century BC technology attica (cooking reduction, oxidation) allows the painted (black figures, and then red figures) to achieve perfection  .

The Etruscans give the appearance of metal ceramics bucchero called nero. In Gaul, The Graufesenque and perfectly mimic Lezoux sealed Roman ceramics. Egypt and Persia (bricks Suse) were behind the first glazed ceramics. The West has many medieval pottery centers, including the Beauvaisis and Saintonge. Materials and colors will be improved in the sixteenth century by Bernard Palissy.

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