Ceramics are probably the most common of all art forms to have emerged from human history and are one of the oldest inventions. The first evidence of human-made ceramics dates back to at least 24,000 years BC! While the technology and applications have steadily increased, the use of this form of art stayed pretty much the same. Just like before, we make use of ceramics as containers for water and food, art objects, tiles and bricks and so on.

In this article, however, we want to share the most unusual and unique ceramic things that people created, as posted on this subreddit, r/Ceramics. From impressive arm sculptures to exclusive cups, we believe you’ll find some really interesting and beautiful pieces in here.

#1 First Time Experimenting With Black Clay, Love The Contrast!

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#2 How About Some Frogs?

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#3 Made This Ceramic Manta Ray Brooch To Celebrate This Ocean Creature. Each Piece Is Uniquely Glazed

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#4 Extreme Glaze (Porcelain, Cone 6)

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#5 Check Out These Shrines Made By My Girlfriend. She Is Always Way Too Insecure About Her Ceramics

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#6 Follow Up On The Rakoon, To Seal The Deal. The Whiskers Are Nylon

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#7 My Ceramic Hand Vase V2

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#8 My Teapot Is Going To State!

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#9 Kitchen Backsplash – My Biggest Ceramic Project

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#10 Angry Bull Incense Burner

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#11 Kutani-Yaki

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#12 Leave Me Alone

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#13 Carving A Flamingo In Colored Clay! Sorry For The Awkward Camera Angles, Still Experimenting With Recording My Process

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#14 Give My Ceramic Whales Warm Welcome

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#15 Rakooon

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#16 Thrilled With The Way The Glaze Came Out On This Spoon-Rest I Made For A Friend

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#17 Made Some Little Blobfish Desk Buddies / Paperweights

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#18 My Husband Is Modest But I Think His Latest Work Is Worth Sharing… Pieces Are Designed With Islamic Geometry

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#19 Hippo, Hand Sculpted And Raku Fired Ceramic

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#20 Made A Plate To Propose To My Now Fiancé

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#21 First Teapot!

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#22 Here’s A Pottery Piece I Found On Facebook (Source In Comments)

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#23 My Pangolin Jar Survived The Kiln!

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#24 Collection Of Ceramic Works I Have Created During The Winter

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#25 A Stemmed Cup I Made Fresh Out Of The Kiln

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#26 Got This Finished Beauty From The Kiln! I’m Also Accepted To Art School To Study Ceramics On A 75% Scholarship – It Doesn’t Feel Real. Today’s A Good Day

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#27 Made Custom Bowls For My Cats

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#28 Handmade Donutware

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#29 I Like Making Ridiculously Sized Things In My Ceramics Class. This Is My Ridiculously Sized Pencil From My Last Semester

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#30 Autumn-Themed Cat Commission

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#31 Art Teacher Made This Vase Out Of Smaller Vases, Each One Was Made Individually On The Wheel, Took Him Roughly 40 Hours To Complete

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#32 Y’all Liked My Levitating Bowl. Here’s More Ploop

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#33 It’s So Hard To Get A Good Photo Of Iridescence But I Also Can’t Stop Making These Planters!

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#34 Hand Carved, Colored Porcelain Designs. Fresh Out Of The Kiln

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#35 Extremely Happy With My Improvement In Just One Year

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#36 My Moms Ceramic Teapot

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#37 Cone 8, Colored Porcelain

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#38 Silly Small Vase I Made. It’s About The Size Of An Orange

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#39 Hand Built Stoneware Giraffe Bust. Dipped In Clear And Sprayed With Green Glaze. I’ve Named Him Stuart

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#40 My Mug On A Mug

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#41 Translucent Porcelain Spray Paint Lamp

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#42 My Wheel Thrown Pot With Some Hand Built Mushrooms !

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#43 I Painted Three Black Clay Trays And Ready To Bisque Them!

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#44 This Is One Of My Moms More Recent Works. What Do You Think?

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#45 Slowly Getting Better

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#46 Started Making Mushroom Ceramics And Needless To Say I’m Obsessed!!

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#47 Skunk!

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#48 Stormy Mugs

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#49 A Ceramic Church I’ve Been Working On For The Last 4 Months

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#50 Apologies For The Not So Great Picture, But This Is My First Teapot! I’m Pretty Happy With The Result

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#51 Fruity Mugs

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#52 Rahel Ungwanaka From @hermannsburgpotters, Central Australia

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#53 My Swiss Roll Butter Dish Back From The Kiln!

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#54 It Survived!!! I Was So Worried It Would Break. No Glaze, Cone 10 Salt Fired, Greune Butter Clay

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#55 Cone 8, Double Walled Insulated Mug, Colored Porcelain

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#56 A Pair Of Axolotls Enjoying The Outdoors!

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#57 I Made A Table!!!! Gahhhhhh

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#58 Color/Size Transformation

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#59 Working Hard To Grow My New Pottery Business In 2020, But At Least I Make Pretty Things And That Brings Me Joy

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#60 A Face Planter I Made Some Time Ago. I Really Like The Spotted Clay. What Do You Think?

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#61 I Made This Jellyfish Wind Chimes. What Do You Think?

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#62 Stoneware Cabinet Of Curiosities I Made! It Hasn’t Been Fired Yet, I Hope It Survives Without Cracks

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#63 This Is Our Cup Wall! My Husband And I Collect Handmade Mugs/Cups. Some Are Novice Artists And Some Are Professional. When People Come Over They Choose Their Favorite Cup To Drink Out Of!

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#64 Inspired By Andre Borderie, I Made This Bedside Lamp. Really Wanted To Go For A Switch On The Lamp Itself, Instead Of Reaching For The Chord In The Dark

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#65 Trying To Beat The Heat With Some Arctic Animal Sgraffito!

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#66 Recently Had A Bad Experience With Another, Larger Ceramicist That Put Me Off From Posting My Pieces On Instagram. After Unloading My Newest Work Though— I’m Ready To Share Again!!!

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#67 My First Time Sharing My Work, I’m Really Proud Of This Piece

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#68 My Ceramic Burger Am Absolutely In Love With The Colors

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#69 I Made A Mug. It Is A Fish. It Contains Chocolate That Is Hot

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#70 Just Painted These Babies

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#71 Pretty Proud Of This Lil Lizard Pot!

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#72 The Beauty And Hardships Of Ceramics. Credit To : Sunkooyuhceramics On Ig

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#73 It’s Great To See My Progress Over The Past Year And A Half. I Never Thought I’d Get To Where I Am Now, But So Happy That I Did!

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#74 First Time Posting On Reddit

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#75 Gas Kiln Goodies!

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#76 I Just Really Love How This Glaze Turned Out

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#77 A Few Of The Tiles I’ve Designed This Year

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#78 My Two Donut Vases Survived Every Firing!

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#79 This Lil Guy Brings Me So Much Joy For No Particular Reason Lol

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#80 I Store All My Tiny Houses On A Cute Little Shelf

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#81 Cone 8 Colored Porcelain Teacups Fresh Out Of The Kiln

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#82 My Little Speedo Case Came Out Really Cute !

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#83 Grinning Stoneware Pots, Thrown Then Altered. There’s Slight Spaces Between The Teeth So They Drool When Watered

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#84 Cat Skull Mug Process

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#85 Finally Discovered The Underglaze Room At The Studio And I’m So Excited

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#86 I Made A Little Ceramic Mummy Pumpkin For Halloween!

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#87 Pretty Happy With How This Little Guy Is Painted Up, Can’t Wait To Fire Him Then Glaze Him! I Mostly Do Mugs So Nice To Have A Bigger Space For More Detail!

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#88 Little Hummingbird Friend

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#89 I Made A Bull Sculpture And Glazed It With A Crystalline Glaze. It Dunted But It Doesn’t Bother Me Too Much. What Do You All Think?

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#90 First Successful Carved Piece

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#91 My Partner Makes (Imo) The Coolest Mugs Ever!

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#92 Tree Frog Mug, Greenwear. Getting Back Into The Swing Of Things. Hope You Enjoy This Little Guy!

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#93 I’ve Got A Pop Up Exhibition This Weekend In Norwich. Here Is My Set Up

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#94 Frog!

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#95 Hi! My Wife Is A Ceramacist And Sculptor And I Wanted To Show Her Latest Artwork On Here Because I Think It’s Amazing. She Doesn’t Use Reddit. All Of Her Cermaic Work Are Handbuilt And Then Colour Treated With Underglaze, Glazed And Fired To 1220c. This Piece Is About 120cmx120cm

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#96 I Made A Book Cover For My Friends Tattoo Flash Book

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#97 Collaboration Pieces With My Husband

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#98 The Crown Jewel Of My High School Ap Ceramics Portfolio. I Was So Lucky To Have Access To A Wood Kiln

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#99 I Rarely Make Mugs Because I Think They’re Boring But I Love How This One Turned Out

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#100 Come 8, Layered And Carved Porcelain

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#101 Slab, Coil, And Wheel Thrown Planter!

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#102 Gandalf

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#103 After Much Procrastination, My ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Bookends Have Been Glazed

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#104 Raku

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#105 I’m So Happy With This Piece. Its Part Of An Ongoing Series And I Can’t Wait To Make More!

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#106 Made A Groovy 60’s Inspired Psychedelic Vase!

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#107 Terracotta Pot I Made For My Big Jade Plant

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#108 Slab Built Piggy Bank I’m Very Proud Of This Project

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#109 My Baby Came Out Of Bisque Firing. Proud Parent Rn

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#110 Thrilled With How This Piece Came Out Of The Luster Firing Today

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#111 #wateringbellwednesday

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#112 My Little Blueberries

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#113 Made A Set Of Ramen Bowls

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#114 Luster Firing Has Finally Cooled Down! Here’s One Of My Personal Faves

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#115 Cow!

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#116 Ceramic Buddies

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#117 A Handful Of Colourful Ceramic Animals I Made!

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#118 A Small Koala Pinch Pot I Made In Ceramics Class !! So Happy With How It Turned Out, So I Thought I’d Share

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#119 I Made Pokeball Ornaments!

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#120 My Alligator Rolling Tray Painted With Velvet Under Glaze Ready For The Kiln

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#121 Clay Oranguthan Meditating, I Loved The Process Of Making This

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#122 A Friend From Work Wanted Me To Make Him A Mew From Pokemon

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#123 Halloween Plates I Made On English Porcelain!

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#124 My Wife Finished Her First Entertaining Set. I Think She’s Got Amazing Talent!

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#125 My First Post Here – Ceramic Ghosts

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#126 Coneflowers Three Ways On Slab-Built Mugs

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#127 Look What I Dug Up! (Squeakoid)

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#128 The Finished Jar

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#129 I Shared The Blue Mug Last Night And Ya’ll Wanted To See More. Here They Are!

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#130 A Pair Of Lidded Jars I Finished!

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#131 Hand Built Witch’s Table

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#132 Red And Raw

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#133 A Handful Of Ceramic Duckies I Made!

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#134 I Made Some Hare Plates, I Love Them! Excited To Show Them Off At A Market Tomorrow

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#135 I Think My First Teapot Is Worthy Of My First Post Here!

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#136 Ngl, I’m Pretty Proud Of The New Octopus Mug I Made

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