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Hohokam pottery
creamware vase
Yixing ware teapot
unfired whiteware
Pottery from the Jōmon period
Cizhou stoneware vase
creamware jug
Minoan spouted jar
François Vase
Detail from the Brygos Cup by the Brygos Painter, showing ancient Greek warriors in battle during the Sack of Troy, with figures in armor and shields on a black and red pottery surface.
Observe a western African village dedicated to making pottery using ancient methods
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Key People

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David Elers
English potter
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Enoch Wood
English potter
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Ralph Wood, Sr.
English potter
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Ralph Wood, Jr.
English potter
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Aaron Wood
English potter
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Sakaida Kakiemon I
Japanese potter
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Elers, John Philip
English potter
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
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Eva Zeisel
Hungarian American designer and ceramicist
Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez
American artist
Grayson Perry dressed as his alter ego Claire, wearing a bright red dress and red heels, stands on a pink and white carpet outside the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Grayson Perry
British potter
Dave the Potter
Dave the Potter
American potter and poet
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Beatrice Wood
American ceramicist
Josiah Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood
English craftsman
We'wha
We’wha
A:Shiwi artist
Palissy ware
Bernard Palissy
French potter and scientist
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John Astbury
English potter
“Dionysus Crossing the Sea,” interior of a kylix (shallow drinking cup) by Exekias, c. 535 bc; in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich
Exekias
Greek artist
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
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Euphronios
Greek artist

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