Portageville, MO Profile: Facts, Map & Data. Portageville, Missouri - Basic Facts. The City of Portageville had a population of 3,274 as of July 1, 2016. Portageville ranks in the upper quartile for Population Density and Diversity Index when compared to the other cities, towns and Census Designated Places (CDPs) in Missouri. See peer rankings below.
Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. Pottery workshop reconstruction in the Museum of Traditional Crafts and Applied Arts, Troyan, Bulgaria. Pottery is the craft of making ceramic material into pots or potterywares using mud. Major types of potterywares include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery (plural potteries).
Functional Pottery The words âfunctionalâ and âpotteryâ go hand in hand. Pottery may be the oldest of the decorative arts, but it began as the creation of functional objects used in everyday life such as vessels, plates and bowls. The history of pottery dates back to the Neolithic period while glazed stoneware was first created in China as early as the 15th century BCE.