In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day.
As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millennia.
Indeed, the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society.
This fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Ro.