From Our Native Clay: Art Pottery from the Collections of the American Ceramic Arts Society

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Ironically, it was the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century that made the concept of art pottery possible. For the most part, this body of work was produced in reaction to industry’s dominations of productions techniques, taste, and design. The various labels of “Art Pottery,” “Art Furniture,” “Art Metal,” etc., have their origin in mid-nineteenth century England, where Summerly’s Art Manufactures, an early experiment in enlisting artists to design for industry, was perhaps the first to use the “art” prefix…..