The city has a long history as a pottery center, going as far back as the Etruscans.

As of December, 2008, Italian researchers have discovered the pottery center where the oil lamps that lit the ancient Roman empire were made.

Ubeda, about 90 miles east of Cordoba, is one of the country's larger pottery centers.

The interchange of iconography, techniques, and ideas between the major pottery centers of the Hellenistic Period was formidable.

The authorities were also raising a wall around a building housing a pottery center, and were restocking the clinic with medicine every month.

"It was nice when we were the pottery center of the U.S."

Biot was a pottery centre from the beginning of the 16th century until the 18th century.

Mr. Sawa works at Shigaraki, an old pottery center near Kyoto.

(The San Francisco Bay area was another modernist pottery center.)