The word comes into middle english from old french for a pot.
Person who does ceramics.
Therefore the a person who makes and sculpts clay objects is a potter.
Someone who makes pottery is usually called a potter in english.
They make pots which is just a word for any vessel at one time made of clay.
The place they do this is a pottery.
The shaping and artistry of clay earthen objects is known as pottery.
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard durable form.
Ceramics are just one component of goldberg s recent installations that respond to the post industrial world which earned her solo shows at sculpturecenter in long island city and galleria d arte moderna e contemporanea di bergamo last year as well as inclusion in the five person mirror cells exhibition at the whitney.
Major types include earthenware stoneware and porcelain the place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery plural potteries.