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These links show potters at work, and potters' wheels. The Ashmolean Museum's website notes that, "following its abandonment at the end of the Roman period, the potter's wheel was reintroduced from the eighth century onwards."
See also Medieval Pottery: Pottery Wheels for techniques for creating medieval English pottery. For more links on pottery, click here.
- Anglo-Saxon pottery and potters' wheels
- Jeremiah at the house of the potters, the Bible of Roda (BNF Latin 6 (3), fol. 19v), mid- to third quarter of the 11th century
- Jeremiah at the house of the potter, Biblia sacra moralisata (BNF Latin 11560, fol. 141v), c. 1235-1245
- Jeremiah drinks at the house of the potters, Concordantiae caritatis (Lilienfeld Stiftsbibliothek 151, fol. 211v), c. 1349-1351
- Karkinos, father of Agathocles, De casibus (BNF Fr. 235, fol. 158v), first half of the 15th century
- A card from a deck of playing-cards ("Hofämterspiel"), c. 1455
- Nigidius and his argument about the fate of twins, derived from the potter’s wheel, The City of God (MMW 10 A 11, fol. 232v), c. 1475-1480
- A potter, Chants royaux sur la conception (BNF Fr. 1537, fol. 100), 1500
But als potter wit pottes dos Quen he his neu wessel fordos, He castes al þan in a balle, A better for to mak wit-alle, O noght he lokes quilk was quilk, Bot makes a-noþer of þat ilk Wel fairer þan þe first was wrought; Right sua sal crist, ne dut ye noght. Cursor Mundi, ll. 22937-22946 - Inventions: a potter's wheel, one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks (Bibl. Institut 2177, fol. 48v), c. 1508-1509
- Potter, woodcut illustration 1537
- Illustrations from Li tre libri dell'arte del vasajo (Three Books of the Potter's Art) by Cipriano Picolpasso, 1548
- The Potter, Das Ständebuch, 1568
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