Bucchero

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Bucchero [ˈbukkero] (via ital. from port. bucáro – “odorous clay”) is a type of black pottery typical for the Etruscan civilization during the 1st millennium BC.

Firing method turned the clay black, and the surface was shiny and metallic-looking because it was carefully polished before firing.

[edit] Further reading

• Hirschland-Ramage, Nancy (1970). "Studies in Early Etruscan Bucchero". Papers of the British School at Rome 38: 1-61. 
• Rasmussen, Tom B. (1979). Bucchero pottery from Southern Etruria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22316-4.