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Comenius Project 2010/2011 Bordeaux. CERAMICS The Bordeaux area is well known for its great wines, but with this clayey earth local people also make pottery. Learning about ceramics has allowed us to :. Go back in history Discover modern ceramic art Learn about crafts
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CERAMICSThe Bordeaux area is well known for its great wines, but with this clayey earth local people also make pottery.
Learning about ceramics has allowed us to : • Go back in history • Discover modern ceramic art • Learn about crafts • Explain what we have learnt by writing in a journalistic style • Develop our knowledge by observing fine ceramics from different countries.
Going back in time • The town of Saint-Emilion has an underground pottery museum. • We went back in time with a guided tour of the museum and learnt about the uses of ceramic objects in past times.
Objects in the museum :water jugs, oil jars, jars for storing meat in oil, vinegar bottles, alcohol flasks...
Contemporary ceramic art in the museum Artist Sophie Combres Paintings on cermaic spheres
A Craftsman in the village of Sadirac • The village of Sadirac was once a village of potters. The local earth was used to make ceramic objects • Meeting and watching a potter was a moving experience. • We watched him making different objects.
In Sadirac we also made some ceramic objects : jugs and cups
Museum of Decorative Art BORDEAUX The museum is set in a bourgeois home dating from the 18th Century
Jars for medicinal plants and tabacco Apothecary jar, Made in Bordeaux