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Full Syllabus
Latest Revision: 23rd July 2003

PART I: PREHISTORIC AND ANCIENT
1. (1.1) Origins in Prehistory.
2. (1.2) Invention of the Potter's Wheel.
3. (1.3) Earliest Firings & Kilns.
4. (1.4) Earliest Frits and Glazes.
5. (1.5) Ceramics in Crete & Mycenae.
6. (1.6) Ceramics in Classical Greece.
7. (1.7) Pre-Roman Europe & Etruscan Ceramics.
8. (1.8) Ceramics in the Roman World.



PART II: CERAMICS IN CHINA.

9. (2.1) From Prehistoric to Han China.
10. (2.2) T'ang ceramics.
11. (2.3) Sung Ceramics.
12. (2.4) Liao and Yûan ceramics.
13. (2.5) Ming Ceramics.
14. (2.6) Ch'ing ceramics.

PART III: ISLAMIC INNOVATIONS.

15. (3.1) Early Islamic Period - 7th to 12th C. in the Near East.
16. (3.2) Later Islamic - 12th to 16th C. Syria, Persia and Turkey.
17. (3.3) Hispano-Moresque Pottery and late Islamic pottery.

PART IV: EUROPEAN POTTERY - 12th TO 18TH C.

18. (4.1) Lead-glazed Slipware from Byzantium to 18th C.
19. (4.2) Italy - Tin-glazed pottery and sculpture.
20. (4.3) Tin-glaze spreads to the rest of Europe.
21. (4.4) The invention and development of Saltglaze.
22. (4.5) European Porcelain - Soft and Hard-paste ware.
23. (4.6) Staffordshire potteries and their influence.

PART V: 'ETHNOGRAPHIC' POTTERY.

24. (5.1) Pre-Columbian America, Africa and Oceania.

PART VI: 19-20TH CENTURY ARTIST-POTTERY

25. (6.1) Early to mid 19th century Europe.
26. (6.2) 19th Art Pottery in France and England.
27. (6.3) S.E. Asia. Korean and Japanese Pottery.
28. (6.4) The Anglo-Japanese Pottery Movement.
29. (6.5) 20th century Fine Art Influence. Europe and USA.
30. (6.6) Some perspective on Late 20th century Ceramics.