buccheron.
/bʊˈkɛːrəʊ/ Archaeology.
A type of pottery, characteristic of ancient Tuscany, of a uniform black, neither glazed nor painted, but decorated with figures in low relief, or, in later times, with figures moulded separately and applied to the pottery. Also attributive.
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bucchero1889
1889 in Cent. Dict.
1905 H. B. Walters Hist. Anc. Pottery II. 295 In the earlier chamber-tombs no bucchero is found.
1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 722/1 Bucchero ware—the national pottery of Etruria.
1922 Edinb. Rev. July 54 Some goblets of finely modelled and burnished black bucchero.
1950 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 16 56 There is much to be said for correlating the Aeolic dialect with the areas that produced that grey bucchero pottery known as Grey Minyan ware.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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