The bucchero vases

In the next age, the ceramic production called "mixture" started to produce a type of native ceramic probably derives from the previous. This new type is the bucchero, which dominated Etruria from half way through the VII to the beginning of the V century B.C. The term derives from bucàro, a Portuguese term, which means fragrant and that was attributed to the Peruvian mixture similarly imitated in Portugal. The bucchero always presented a chromatic composition of even black tonality, and is characterised by the very shiny surface, got probably by a process of chemical reduction activity during the stage of baking with a smoking flame. To the bucchero they attached a major diffusion of Etruscan craftwork in that many discoveries of this type were carried out on the gallo-iberiche coast, at Carthago, in Sicily, in Magna Greece and in Greece, in lower Egypt and at Cipro, in practice, in all the areas more significant of the commercial network of the bay of the Mediterranean.

The object was produced with treated clay and very impure, perhaps mixed with carbon power and was baked with an advanced technique. The vase could have thin or thick walls (bucchero light or heavy) reproducing the more different forms. The decorations were engraved or raised and than half of the world documentation of engraved figures came from the Caere production.

To the bucchero they attached a major diffusion of Etruscan craftwork in that many discoveries of this type were carried out on the gallo-iberiche coast, at Carthago, in Sicily, in Magna Greece and in Greece, in lower Egypt and at Cipro, in practice, in all the areas more significant of the commercial network of the bay of the Mediterranean.