Pottery began as simple tools for everyday life, but the aesthetics of these simple tools seem to have always been important. Find one ancient piece of pottery and one contemporary piece of pottery and compare the two.

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Pottery began as simple tools for everyday life, but the aesthetics of these simple tools seem to have always been important. Find one ancient piece of pottery and one contemporary piece of pottery and compare the two.

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