| Cultural expression is important to many people | | | | tends in the designs of many different cultures, and |
| around the world. Nothing reflects historical culture | | | | can differentiate between the artistic designs found |
| quite like pottery does. There are a number of | | | | on the pottery of two or more similar cultures. |
| difference cultures that have their own antique | | | | If you want to create a special cultural theme within |
| pottery colors, style, and design. Many cultures also | | | | your home, you can start with pottery. You may |
| have their own special method of creating pottery. | | | | have paintings, furniture, lamps, and other things that |
| The gathering of the clay, the potter's wheel, the | | | | reflect the style of the particular culture that you are |
| shaping and the designing of the pottery can vary | | | | trying to portray. Pottery is excellent for not only |
| from culture to culture. You can theme your home | | | | reflecting the style of a particular culture, but it can |
| with remnants of your culture, or of a culture that | | | | also create the mood of the past. Antique pottery is |
| you happen to admire. | | | | the best kind to use if you want to create a certain |
| African, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, American, Japanese | | | | "old" mood in your home. |
| and Chinese cultures all have special pieces of | | | | The nice thing about pottery is that you may be able |
| pottery. Sometimes it takes a true expert to | | | | to keep it outside. You can give your back yard, or |
| determine which culture and which era a certain piece | | | | your front yard, a particular cultural feel by adding |
| of pottery comes from. Almost every one of these | | | | pottery that is specific to a nationality or ethnicity. |
| cultures has a pottered piece that is used for a | | | | One of the ways to express your cultural identity or |
| potted plant or is a vase. It is the texture of the | | | | your love for a particular culture is to decorate. You |
| pottery itself, as well as the designs that make each | | | | might not want to have a room decorated |
| piece unique. | | | | permanently with this theme. You can choose to do |
| Archaeologists can sometimes tell the actual age of a | | | | this for certain holidays, and then store the pottery |
| particular piece of pottery. They may also be able to | | | | and other items away until next year. It is truly up to |
| speculate about what the pottery was used for back | | | | you. Whatever you do, enjoy it, and preserve your |
| in the time that it was created. They study the | | | | pottery and other antique cultural items well. |