pottery

📅 Updated:2025-09-08

🕒 Created:2017-01-24

🆔 ID:15104

Description

Pottery is the craft of making ceramic material into pots or potterywares using clay, mud, or other similar raw materials. The wares produced by this craft is also usually called "pottery". Major types of potterywares include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made by a potter is called a pottery (plural "potteries"). The technical definition of pottery used by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) is "all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products."