Arretine ware

[ar-uh-tahyn, -teen]

noun

1. a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Tuscany from 100 b.c. to a.d. 100 and widely traded.

Arretine ware

noun

1. another term for Samian ware

Word History and Origins

Origin of Arretine ware¹

1775–85; < Latin Arrētīnus, derivative of Arrētium (modern Arezzo), a town in Tuscany where such pottery was made; -ine ¹

Example Sentences

The Arretine ware may be regarded as the Roman pottery par excellence, and its popularity extended from about 150 b.c. down to the end of the 1st century of the Empire, reaching its height in the 1st century b.c., after which it rapidly degenerated, and its place was taken by the wares of the provinces.

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Arretine ware, as has been noted, steadily degenerated during the 1st century of the Empire, and the manufacture of ornamental pottery appears to have entirely died out in Italy by the time of Trajan.

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The ornament is invariably coarser than that of Arretine ware, by which, however, it is indirectly inspired.

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But it was only accepted with diffidence as a convenient name, and as early as 1840 discoveries at Arezzo made it possible to distinguish the vases found there as a local product, now known as “Arretine” ware.

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