The ratio of plain, utilitarian pottery to fine, polychrome pottery was 30% to 70% (Silverman, 1988).

As in other Weeden Island areas, there is a difference between ceremonial/prestige pottery, found primarily in burial mounds, and the utilitarian pottery found in village sites and shell middens.

By the Heian period, Sue ware had become a utilitarian pottery, and it became the ancestor of a number of regional ceramics.

Clean lines and distinctive glazes mark their work; avoiding ceramic trends, they focused on traditional and utilitarian pottery.

The company began producing utilitarian pottery in the 1920s, and introduced solid color earthenware dinnerware in 1932.

A section on utilitarian pottery is cleverly counterpointed by one titled "Utility Trumped," showing works that play with the notion of use but are not really meant for such mundane purposes.

Several Inuit communities, such as the Netsilik, Sadlermiut, Utkuhiksalik, and Qaernerimiut created utilitarian pottery in historic times, primarily to store food.

In her first two years at Marlboro College, Tracy Martin developed an interest in utilitarian Mayan pottery.

The new tourist industry marked a general change from utilitarian pottery to more decorative ware.

Everyday utilitarian pottery was still very fine with thin decorated walls and red or black slips polished to a high sheen.