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  Decorative arts timeline
     
c. 6500 BC
 
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Pottery fragments of this date survive in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk      
c. 2500 BC
 
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The treasures found in the royal cemetery at Ur include a depiction of soldiers in copper helmets, armed with battleaxes       
c. 1450 BC
 
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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
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c. 1400 BC
 
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China produces superb bronzes, in the ritual vessels for sacrifices to the ancestors       
Shang bronze
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c. -850 BC
 
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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
 
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The swirling decorative lines of Celtic metalwork at Hallstatt begin a tradition which lives on in illuminated manuscripts and stone Celtic crosses