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Potter or Ceramic Artist

OFO Code: 661401

Last checked 3 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
661401
Occupation
Potter or Ceramic Artist
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
Unit group
6614 · Potters and Related Workers

Official description
Potters and related workers prepare pottery, porcelain ware, sanitary ware, bricks, tiles and abrasive wheels by hand or by machine.

More official OFO detail
  • Reading technical drawings to know customer’s requirements
  • Adjusting wheel speeds according to the feel of the clay as pieces enlarge and walls become thinner
  • Adjusting and setting controls of pug mill that mixes, extrudes, cuts, and deposits clay charges in or over moulds as specified
  • Operating jigger machines to form ceramic ware, such as bowls, cups, plates, and saucers
  • Smoothening surfaces of finished pieces, using rubber scrapers and wet sponges
  • Forming articles on potter's wheel by pressing thumbs into centres of revolving clay to form hollows, and press on the inside and outside of emerging clay cylinders with hands and fingers, gradually raising and shaping clay to desired forms and sizes
  • Preparing work for sale or exhibition, and maintaining relationships with retail, pottery, art, and resource networks that can facilitate sale or exhibition of work
  • Making clay or plaster of Paris moulds
  • Making articles of pottery and porcelain
  • Forming abrasive wheels by moulding and pressing an abrasive mixture by hand or by machine
  • Examining finished ware for defects, verifying accuracy of shapes and sizes of objects, using callipers and templates

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