The conference was an occasion to celebrate not only North Carolina's central role in American pottery but also its growing international reputation in the art.

They are then fired and painted with motifs based on Native American pottery.

One work pairs an American Indian pottery on a gold ground with a gold-on-black image, nearly abstract, of a highway's dividing line.

One niche holds Native American pottery, another a statue.

The company became the first American commercial pottery to operate a fully computer-controlled tunnel kiln.

Although scores of early American potteries produced functional items from their local clay, most were displaced during the 20th century by inexpensive manufactured goods.

Native American pottery is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas.

A Rain Bird design is used in some Native American pottery.

American potteries became established during the mid- to late-19th century.

He specialized in 19th-century American pottery and bronze.