Vase with Cloth Low-poly 3D model

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A vessel (/vɑːz/, /veɪs/ or /veɪz/) is an uncovered container that can hold things. It is often made from a wide range of materials, such as ceramic ware , glassware, metals like aluminum, brass, bronze or stainless steel. Even wood has been used to create vessels, either by using tree species that naturally resist rot, such as teakwood, or by applying a protective coating to ordinary wood. Vessels are often embellished with designs and they are commonly used to hold cut flowers. Vessels typically have the same overall shape. The base or foot may be spherical, flat, convex, or some other form. The main part of the piece is its body. Some vessels have a ridge or shoulder, where the body curves inward, a neck that gives height, and a rim, where the vessel flares back out at the top. Many vessels are also given handles to hold onto. Various designs and types of vessels have been developed in different cultures around the world throughout history. Such examples include Chinese ceramics and Native American pottery. In ancient Greece, vase painting was the traditional term that referred to the beautiful, intricately painted pottery often featuring many figures from Greek mythology in its scenes. Many of these pieces may be called vessels regardless of their shape; most were actually used for holding or serving liquids and would have been more accurately described as cups, jugs, etc. In 2003, Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize for his ceramic ware, typically made into vessel form. The history of vessel design and functionality goes back thousands of years in nearly all developed civilizations. Frequently, the only surviving artistic remnants from lost cultures are their ceramics, which include vessels of all kinds. When potters first started making pottery, coiling was by far the most widely used technique for constructing pots. Coiling involves shaping clay into long strings that take on a cylindrical shape and later form smooth walls. The potter's wheel is thought to have originated in Mesopotamia around the 4th millennium BCE. From there it spread across much of Asia and Africa, but did not reach the New World until Europeans arrived. The first evidence found of potters' wheels was discovered in southern Iraq. This innovation provided a great advantage for the people of south Iraq as it gave them an alternative to their former time-consuming practices. On this new method they would then gradually improve upon and also adopt its use for embellishing pottery.