samian ware

noun

1. a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.

noun

1. a fine earthenware pottery, reddish-brown or black in colour, found in large quantities on Roman sites
2. Also called: Arretine ware the earlier pottery from which this developed, an imitation of a type of Greek pottery, made during the first century bc at Arretium