Impasto is a type of coarse
Etruscan pottery. The defining characteristic is that the clay contains chips of
mica or stone.
[Nigel Spivey, ''Etruscan Art'', page 35]
In G.A. Mansuelli's, ''The Art of Etruria and Early Rome'' (1964), the term "impasto
pottery" is described in the following way: "Ceramic technique characteristic of hand-worked vases. By 'impasto pottery' is generally meant that of pre-historic times, of the
Iron Age or later, made of impure clay with
silica content." (p. 236)
See also
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Bucchero
Bucchero () is a class of ceramics produced in central Italy by the region's pre-Roman Etruscan population. This Italian word is derived from the Latin ''poculum'', a drinking-vessel, perhaps through the Spanish ''bĂșcaro'', or the Portuguese ' ...
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Archaeological artefact types
Etruscan ceramics
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