Self-coloured wares still occur, and are sometimes elegant ( 'bucchero' ware); but the improved furnaces now permit general use of light-coloured clays, suited to painted decoration. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
Abydos vases of black hand-burnished ware, which are very closely allied, both inform and colour, to the primitive 'bucchero' discovered immediately above the Neolithic deposit in the West Court at Knossos; and he has suggested that, as the pottery is not Egyptian in style, it may have been imported from Crete. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea-Kings of Crete] Reference
Among the grave goods were Etruscan bronze bowls, and Etruscan bucchero and Sabine-Faliscan pottery. From Wordnik.com. [Umbrian Tombs] Reference
Museum, behind the cathedral in Orvieto, which has a superb collection of bucchero, or lustrous black Etruscan pottery. From Wordnik.com. [Green-Hearted Italy] Reference
The primitive 'bucchero,' still surviving alongside of the painted pottery, is very closely related to the imported vases found by Petrie in First Dynasty tombs at. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea-Kings of Crete] Reference
On the eastern slope of the hill, in a deposit of pale clay, were found fragments of the black, hand-made, polished pottery, known as 'bucchero,' characteristic of neolithic sites, some of it, as usual, decorated with incised patterns filled in with white. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea-Kings of Crete] Reference
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