Archive for the 'Boleslawiec, Poland' Category

Making Polish Pottery

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

It was around the 7th century, that the town of Boleslawiec, Poland began making the high quality pottery that has come to define it. In the 17th century, a large deposit of vitrified clay was discovered in the basins of the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers. This caused a build up in production that brought the [...]

Animal figurines and the Easter bunny

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

One of the earliest forms of art work excavated during archaeological digs, besides clay pots, were different figurines.  These included figurines of people, deities, as well as animal figurines.  Some of these animal figurines were created before the Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia, dating as far back as the Neolithic period in human history! (Approximately 10,000 [...]