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It is well written and has excellent photographic images. Pottery, one of the oldest and most widespread of the decorative arts, consisting of objects made of clay and hardened with heat. A compact 1st edition of the ceramics book, beautifully presented with photographic. Midcentury modern mcm is the term to objects that were originally designed during the middle of the 20th century roughly 1940searly 1970s and that are modern in style and construction aligned.