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Decorative arts timeline
c. 6500 BC
Pottery fragments of this date survive in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk
c. 2500 BC
The treasures found in the royal cemetery at Ur include a depiction of soldiers in copper helmets, armed with battleaxes
c. 1450 BC
Rich Egyptian households have the latest luxury items, small bottles of coloured glass to hold cosmetics
Glass bottle in form of a fish, c.1350 BC
British Museum
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c. 1400 BC
China produces superb bronzes, in the ritual vessels for sacrifices to the ancestors
Shang bronze
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c. -850 BC
The technique of glazing pottery is discovered in Mesopotamia, though used at this stage only for decorative purposes
Glazed Babylonian tiles
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c. 600 BC
The swirling decorative lines of Celtic metalwork at Hallstatt begin a tradition which lives on in illuminated manuscripts and stone Celtic crosses
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