Coil Pot

This is a 20th century pot made by the Frafra peoples of Ghana. The purpose of this pot was to carry water. The design is a relief decoration that seems to be unknown as to its purpose. It looks like a creature, but only the builder knows what it is.

-Andrew Lum

Coil Pot

This is a Japanese storage jar from the Muromachi period. This period was from approximately from 1336 to 1573 A.D. The japanese used these kind of pots for storing water and food. As you can see this Coil pot has no finish on it. -Trevor Carlyle

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This pot was found in the 2nd half of the 18th century. It is a porcelain pot with a bamboo design. The leaves of the plant repeat. The thing that caught my eye on this piece was the blue shades with the white pot and the design of the leaf.

Justin Ige

The gourd-shaped wine pot (right) is covered in a scaly motif that increases in size the closer it is to the base of the pot. The pot was sculpted during Korea's Koryo Period, 918-1392. The design appeals to me because it is perfectly suited for embellishing a spherical ceramic sculpture. Since the scales are not rectangular, they do not conflict with the bulbous shape of the pot.

This African Zulu Pinch Pot was used for serving beer which was a key component to Zulu hospitality. This repeat motif has an impressed design of different triangles all around the pot. You can make your design by impressing into the clay or by painting it onto the surface, the clay must be very smooth for this process to work. After this process is done the sculpter painted on three differant colors to give the pot a very tribal feel.

- Ben Dodge

This porcelain pot has a repeat motif. The blue part of the design was painted on. The part that was made on top of the original pot, was made with a different kind of clay. The pot also has evenly spaced out holes in the top section, which is another way it has a repeat motif.

Repeat Motif

Judging from the white color of the clay and the light gloss, I think that this piece is made of porcelain. There is a repeat motif made from blue slip around the top of the bowl.

This is a Chinese jar, it has a repeat motif. This jar is made of porcelain and is painted with an underglaze cobalt blue. The design is painted with the use of floral motifs.

            -Keau

Repeat Motif

This is a bowl from 13th century Iran. It was made from fritware, a type of clay made used Near East. Fritware is made by adding frit to regular clay in order to lower to firing temperature. I think that the repeat motif in this pot is the horsemen. It appears that there are large headed men riding horses in a circular pattern in two rings. It also has a design on the outer ring which is a repeat motif, a leaf-like design that is made probably with glazing. I think that the horsemen were also slip painted on, because it's a very precise design.

-Maxen Chung

This is a chinese dish that is made of porcelain. The dish has a design that is made with a kobalt blue stain in the designs of fruit and plants. Although the outer rim is a little bit of a repeat motif the center is not repeat.

The picture to the left is a Ming dynasty (1522- 1566) porcelain bowl. Around it, there is a motif design. The design was hand painted in underglaze cobalt blue.

Kendra Kubo

Repetitive Gecko Design

On this jar, an artist named Noreen Simplicio, divided this jar into quadrants and Noreen added 3-D geckos (made of clay) in each quadrant. I would consider the geckos a more interesting design as they are small sculptures that were manifested into a pattern instead of just a painted on pattern. The rim of the pot and the geckos were painted with black slip and covered the body of the pot with white clay.

-Sebastien Selarque

The repeat motif is the design around the pot. This design was most likely painted on top of a layer of brown paint. The pot is composed of two clay slips, a white and a red one which were both painted over.

Ryan

Repeat Motif Design

This Pot-Pourri Jar has a repeat motif. The design is either carved out of the clay or impressed into the clay. The pot has also been painted with a dark-blue color. The clay must always be "leather hard" for the artist to create their design.
-Kayla Shimoda

This pot has 2 repeat motif designs on it. One towards the top of the pot and one towards the bottom. The one on the bottom seems to be a repeat of leaves that were glazed in a cobalt blue color. The one on the top of the pot is also glazed in a cobalt blue color.

~ Zach Chong

African Zulu Ceramic Pot Motif from ARTstor.org

This is a ceramic zulu beer pot from South Africa. It has a Repeat Motif and it is a modern pot made in the 20th century. The repeating designs on this pot was probably carved out using tools, and then glazed in a different color from the non-carved part of the pot so it would be easier to see. -Trevor Carlyle

Korean Stoneware Pot

This is a stoneware pot made during the Three Kingdoms Period, specifically during the Silica Kingdom perid (57 B.C - 668 A.D) in Korea. It had traces of an ash glaze and the motif pattern at the bottom is an engraved/ carved repeating motif pattern.

-Andrew Lum

I don't know how this motif was made but it is a repeat motif even though you cannot see that and i think that it was made through painting not by removing or adding clay.

Dax Mench

This African Zulu Pinch Pot has a repeat motif. This is an impressed design. You can make your design by impressing into the clay or by painting onto the surface. In both cases, the clay must be "leather-hard". When it is leather hard, you can also burnish the surface of the clay by gently polishing it with a spoon or smooth stone.
~Carole Iacovelli