We all know the iconic Delft pattern: the blue-and-white windmills, peacocks, florals that hail from Holland and are as deeply Dutch as Vermeer. But until recently, it lived chiefly on pottery. For ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Kenny Sing is a graphic designer and ceramist who creates zoetrope designs on ceramics. As the piece spins under an extremely fast strobe light, the shapes look like ...

Narges Momeni, a senior expert in archeology, stated, “I have endeavored to simultaneously revive and recreate the ancient motifs of Iranian pottery and conduct research on the identification and ...

Q. I have a vase and a pair of candleholders which were given to me by my aunt. As you can see in the photograph, they are decorated with pine cones and are marked Roseville, U.S.A., with some numbers ...

The Ancestral Pueblo people who lived on the austere New Mexico landscape between the early 10th and early 14th centuries undoubtedly spent most of their time securing food, shelter, and clothing. But ...

Ceramics artist Reinhardt debuts with a helpful primer on ceramic surface design techniques. These include additive and subtractive relief (adding clay shapes to or carving out clay from the surface ...