Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay that serves as a cultural, professional, and historical representation of individuals and groups across centuries of art. It may take varied forms, such as artistic pottery, tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is a visual art. While some ceramics are considered fine art, such as pottery or sculpture, most are considered to be decorative, industrial or applied art objects. Ceramic art can be created by one person or by a group, in a pottery or a ceramic factory.
In Britain and the United States, modern ceramics as an art took its inspiration in the early twentieth century from the Arts and Crafts movement, leading to the revival of pottery considered as a specifically modern ...
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Alabaster pot, Mid-Euphrates region 6500 BCE Louvre Museum.jpg
Alabaster pot, Mid-Euphrates region 6500 BCE Louvre Museum
Alabaster pot Mid-Euphrates region 6500 BCE Louvre Museum.jpg
Alabaster pot Mid-Euphrates region 6500 BCE Louvre Museum
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Lady with blue and gilt garment, fan and sun hat, from Tanagra 325-300 BC.
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Anasazi mugs.
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China, Henan Province, Jin dynasty, 1127-1234
Furnishings; Serviceware
Jun ware, wheel-thrown stone...
Calcite tripod vase, mid-Euphrates probably from Tell Buqras, 6000 BCE, Louvre Museum AO 31551.jpg
Calcite tripod vase, mid-Euphrates probably from Tell Buqras, 6000 BCE, Louvre Museum AO 31551
Ceramic bowl decorated with slip beneath a transparent glaze and designed by anthropic figure with bull head Golestan, Gorgan 9th century CE, Early Islamic period.jpg
Ceramic bowl decorated with slip beneath a transparent glaze and designed by anthropic figure with b...
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Ceramic art of a joined male female couple (100 BCE-250 CE) made from polychrome ceramic. Picture ta...
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Madonnenstatue aus Majolika in der Schlosskapelle von Ussé von Luca della Robbia the Young
Cina, dinastia ming, piatto della famiglia blu e bianco, 1410 ca.jpg
Chinese art in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
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Bowl with votive inscriptions in Kufic script. Terracotta, slipped decoration painted on slip and un...
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Céramique sigillée, époque gallo-romaine, musées de la Cour d'Or à Metz.
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Etruscan amphora Louvre E703 side B.jpg
Diomedes and Polyxena. Side B from an Etruscan amphora of the Pontic group, ca. 540–530 BC. From Vul...
Eynan Epipaleolithic mortar.jpg
Eynan Epipaleolithic mortar
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Computer-enhanced photograph of a pottery jar on display in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (item nu...
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View of the luster tiles, ornating the mihrab and its wall, in the Great Mosque of Kairouan, in Tuni...
Franz Anton Bustelli Liebesgruppe 1756-1.jpg
Franz Anton Bustelli: Liebesgruppe "Der stürmische Galan", um 1756, Porzellanmanufaktur Nymphenburg,...
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Funerary urn from Oaxaca. Estimated to originate from Period III (AD 300- 650).
Although listed i...