ceramicist

English

Alternative forms

• ceramist

Etymology

From ceramic +‎ -ist.

Noun

ceramicist (plural ceramicists)

1. A person who makes ceramics, such as pottery.
   • 2007 April 23, Roja Heydarpour, “Otto Natzler, 99, a Ceramicist Celebrated for His Inventive Glazes”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Otto Natzler, a ceramicist best known for inventing glazes resembling geologic textures and colors that he applied to forms created by his wife Gertrud in a famous collaboration of more than three decades, died on April 7 in Los Angeles.

   • 2009 January 30, Wendy Moonan, “An Old-School Collector With Ideas on Beauty”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     While the work of the contemporary artists in the show is avant-garde, it does not overwhelm the colorful faience made by the Faucon family, seven generations of ceramicists who operated a factory in Apt, a town in the Luberon Valley, from 1890 until 2002.

Translations

person who makes ceramics

• Catalan: ceramista m or f
• Esperanto: ceramikisto
• Finnish: keraamikko
• German: Keramiker (de) m, Keramikerin (de) f
• Korean: 요업가(窯業家) (yoeopga)
• Welsh: seramegydd m

Further reading

• “ceramicist”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.