Throughout history and around the world, people have developed the art of forming clay to make ceramic objects,or pottery.
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There he fostered the production of luxurious "art pottery, " the ceramic counterpart of the richly colored and textured "art glass" produced by Louis Comfort Tiffany and other innovators.
Born in England's pottery center, Staffordshire, and trained as a ceramic painter and gilder in the renowned Copeland (formerly Spode) potteries of Stoke-on-Trent, Lycett (1833-1910) emigrated to New York in 1861.