Pottery, Ceramics, Porcelain, And Other Clayware

Great Britain
Millennium Projects V - Art and Craft
May 2, 2000
Set of four, one stamp depicts glazed pottery from CERAMICA Museum, Stoke-on-Trent.

Morocco
Week of the Blind
1992 and 1996: traditional Moroccan pottery

Peru

Local Motives, first issued on July 1st,1938, this definitive series was re-issued twice in 1945 and 1949.

The 4 cts stamp features Huaco Chavin.

A representative and notable theme of the characteristics of the pottery of the Chavín culture is the great mastery of this art that they achieved, despite the little coloration they had.

Chavín de Huántar, also known as the Chavín culture, belongs to the pre-Inca cultures developed within Peru in the Early Horizon between 1200 BC and 400 BC.

They used baked clay, which was monochrome in color , meaning it had only one tone. In their case, the tones were black, leaden and grey. Their pottery were globular in shape with a robust body and the presence of a bridge handle in the form of a thick arch. They had an incised or high relief decoration .

Saargebiet

1921, Landscape definitive series, 3 Mark

This one features the pottery factory at Mettlach, Germany. Villeroy and Boch's Mettlach factory, located in Mettlach, Germany near the French border, was one of the company's most productive factories. The Mettlach factory was housed in a restored former Benedictine Abbey dating back to the 10th century. Between 1880 and 1910, the Mettlach factory reached the pinnacle of its production, and this period is often considered the Golden Age of Mettlach.

World earliest pottery making stamp

Belgian Congo
Sept. 1st, 1923, definitive issue
Potter - indigenous crafts/skills, 1 Fr

This set was designed by Belgian artist Emile Vloors. The stamp features an indigenous women using a stick to decorate the edge of the pottery.

The very first pottery stamps in the world

Greece
March 25th, 1896
Summer Olympic Games 1896 - Athens

The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in April 1896, and Greece issued a series of twelve stamps to mark the occasion. The designs, by Professor Gillieron, were based on ancient Greek art and architecture connected with the games.

20/40 leptons stamp feature the Panathenaic amphora.

Panathenaic amphoræ were used to contain the oil extracted from sacred olive trees, which was then given to the winners of the Panathenaic games, instituted in Athens under Pisistratus around 566 B.C. Widespread throughout Attica, they are also found in the parts of the ancient world where Greek influence was most keenly felt, as in Etruria. On the main face, from the sixth century B.C., there always appears the goddess Athena in the typical attitude of Pròmachos, flanked by two small columns topped with a cockerel, an animal that in this case alludes to competition on account of its combative temperament, and the traditional inscription ton Athenethen athlon (of the Athens contests). On the other side there is instead a representation of the speciality to which the prize refers, which is in this case the pentathlon, a mixed competition that included jumping, running, discus and javelin throwing, and wrestling.

For around two centuries, from the sixth to the fourth B.C., this type of vase was produced conserving the same shape and perpetuating the black-figure technique.

Pottery, FDC issued by Tanzania on November 4, 1985:

Netherlands
Typically Dutch
February 12, 2024
The minisheet shows Delftware ceramic figurines.

Netherlands
Typically Dutch
The minisheets show Delftware ceramic figurines.
May 13: bird
August 12: cat

Vietnam
National Treasures III
July 28, 2024
The stamp set features Dau Ram Ceramic Vase, Long Thanh Terracotta Vase, Nhon Thanh Ceramic Vase, Brown-Flower Ceramic Jar.

Turkey
Anatolian Civilizations – Phrygians
June 25, 2009
Set of four, two stamps depict terracotta ceremonial drinking vessels.

Belgium
Regions of Belgium
January 12, 2009
Set of five, one stamp depicts a ceramic jug of Raeren,

EL SALVADOR
1989
Manufacture of big clay water jars in pre-Columbian times

Guernsey
EUROPA - National Archaeological Discoveries
May 1, 2025
Set of two, one stamp shows Rouen Jug Sherd, fragment of a pottery jug made in Rouen in the 12th or early 13th century.

ISRAEL
1949