European Pottery Masters

Potters of Europe who raised pottery to an art and an industry, from the sixteenth century Huguenot potter famed for his rustic ceramics to the eighteenth century English master who founded a famous pottery firm and developed new clay bodies. The group shows how experiment, glazes and mass production made the European pot into a work of design and science. Their wares, from glazed dishes modelled on lizards and shells to jasper and creamware, are collected today in museums and are still made by pottery firms and studio potters.