Who Was Really First? The True Origins of American Art Pottery [SOLD]

An 8-page article covering how American art pottery was influenced by traditional Indian designs through the last century.

Who Was Really First? The True Origins of American Art Pottery

Bob Seery and Mary Ellen Seery

Published in The Journal of the American Art Pottery Association

November/December 2005

Articles of Interest

- Nemadji “Indian” Pottery by Michelle D. Lee

- Who Was Really First? The True Origins of American Art Pottery by Mary Ellen Seery and Bob Seery

- Native American Images on Rookwood Pottery by Riley Humler

American art pottery by companies such as Rookwood, Ephraim Faience, Weller, Roseville, and others are considered the beginnings of American art pottery.  The article Who Was Really First? states “In reality, American art pottery began over 1,000 years earlier on the American continent in the southwest part of what is now called the United States of America.  People who have been commonly called Anasazi (or, ancestral Puebloans) began to decorate bowls, ollas, ladles, seed jars and other forms consistent with what we today understand as being art pottery.’’