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Art Pottery

Older than porcelain, and freer with colour

Earthenware and stoneware are the older ceramics, and the ones where a single maker's hand is still visible. The art-pottery movements of the nineteenth century are where a pot stops being useful and starts being collected.

History

Earthenware and stoneware are the older bodies, made locally and used until they broke.

Art pottery (from the 1870s) is where a pot stops being useful: individual makers, matte glazes, and a signature on the base.

What to look for

A body you can identify by touch, glaze that pools rather than covers, and throwing or moulding marks that date the method.

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