Masterpieces of Art Pottery: 1880–1930 Maritime ISBN: 9781597254533

ISBN: 9781597254533

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Masterpieces of Art Pottery: 1880–1930 Maritime ISBN: 9781597254533The Newark Museum began exhibiting art pottery in 1910, just one year after it was founded. A century later, the Museum boasts one of the most historically important and well documented art pottery collections in the nation. John Cotton Dana, founding director of the Museum, saw pottery as the ideal way to involve the average museum visitor with art. A vase was functional, but it could also be set on a shelf and appreciated for both its beauty and its