The Stanley Museum of Art has an international collection of ceramic artworks representing techniques and materials from around the world and spanning millennia. Highlights of the collection include terra cotta figures from the Inland Niger Delta made between the mid-13th and early 16th centuries; Zulu- and Bamana-style beer and water pots; figural objects from ancient West Mexico; hundreds of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ceramic works created between the Neolithic period and the late 20th century; a small but notable collection of Near Eastern ceramics, including rhytons created by the Amlash people of Northern Iran from the ninth and eighth centuries BCE as well as Persian ceramics. The collection also has strengths in modern and contemporary ceramics with iconic works by Jun Kaneko, Toshiko Takaezu, Peter Voulkos, Robert Arneson, Ruth Duckworth, Simone Leigh, Gertrud Natzler, and Viola Frey, among others.

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