Into the 20th century and it is now that new names are being introduced into art Pottery , Bernard Leach who was probably the best known  potter  from this time  in the United Kingdom, he established his own works at St Ives in Cornwall, in 1919 and led a group known as  the craftsmen potters.

Working with him where  potters such as Shoji Hamada, Michael Cardew an Katherine Pleydell Bouverie.  Lucie Rie's work is noted for its simple flowing lines, and is much in demand today.  She was born in Austria and her early work in earthenware was inspired by the simple forms of metal worker Josef Hoffmann.

After her move to London in 1938 she liked porcelain and stoneware. From 1947 to 1958, Rie shared a studio with Hans Coper, now widely regarded as the most influential European potter of this Century.  They made domestic wares together , as well as producing pieces of their own.

Round about the time of 1907, potter Andre Metthey opened his Asnieres  studio near Paris, to painters he had met though a dealer, Ambroise Vollard, he started a trend that  continued throughout this century.  Many painters of the time including Edouard Vuillard, Maurice De Vlaminck, Andre Derain and Henri Matisse, experimented with ceramics under Metthely's guidance.

A similar collaboration existed from 1922 between Raoul Dufy, Joan Miro and George Braque  and the Catalan potter Joseph Llorens

Artigas.  But perhaps the most innovative ceramics  to be produced by an artist this century are those of Pablo Picasso. In 1947 started to work with Georges and Suzanne Ramie, who ran the Madoura pottery at Vallauris in the south of France, and set up a studio, where he worked regularly until 1966.

Prices for Picasso's pottery are very high because he is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century.