A potter makes earthenware oil lamps or "Diyo" used to decorate temples and homes ahead of Tihar festival, also called Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Bhaktapur, Nepal October 20, 2019. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

A potter makes earthenware oil lamp or "Diyo" used to decorate temples and homes ahead of Tihar festival, also called Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Bhaktapur, Nepal October 20, 2019. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

A potter makes earthenware oil lamps or "Diyo" used to decorate temples and homes ahead of Tihar festival, also called Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Bhaktapur, Nepal October 20, 2019. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

A couple shape earthenware items in Bhaktapur, Nepal, September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Monika Deupala

The hands of a man are pictured as he makes earthenware in Bhaktapur, Nepal, September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Monika Deupala

A woman looks towards the earthenwareÕs kept to bake in a traditional oven in Bhaktapur, Nepal, September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Monika Deupala

A woman gets a drink of water from an earthenware pot at a public water station in Ahmedabad, India May 20, 2016. REUTERS/Amit Dave

A woman dries earthenware pots in the sun at the ancient city of Bhaktapur, near Nepal's capital Kathmandu September 23, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: SOCIETY)

Spanish bullfighter Morante de la Puebla holds a "capote" as his assistant pours water with a earthenware pitcher before the "Corrida Goyesca" bullfight in Ronda, near Malaga, southern Spain September 7, 2013. In the annual "Corrida Goyesca" fight in Ronda's historic bullring the bullfighters wear costumes from the era of 18th century painter Francisco Goya. Morante de la Puebla faces the six bulls alone. REUTERS/Jon Nazca (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS)

A potter makes earthenware oil lamps or "Diyo" at his workshop to prepare for the upcoming festival of Tihar in Bhaktapur October 19, 2011. The festival is considered the festival of lights during which devotees worship Goddess of Wealth Laxmi by illuminating their homes. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: SOCIETY)

A child looks at her grandfather (unseen) as he dries earthenware oil lamps or "Diyo" at their workshop to prepare for the upcoming festival of Tihar in Bhaktapur October 19, 2011. The festival is considered the festival of lights during which devotees worship Goddess of Wealth Laxmi by illuminating their homes. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: SOCIETY)

A man dries earthenware oil lamps or "Diyo" in the sun outside his workshop, as he prepares for the upcoming festival of Tihar, in Bhaktapur October 19, 2011. The festival is considered the festival of lights during which devotees worship the goddess of wealth Laxmi by illuminating their homes. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

An employee poses with an earthenware ceramic cat artwork by British artist David Hockney at Bonhams auction house in London April 18, 2011. The work, made when Hockney was 18 years old is estimated to sell for £5,000 - £7,000 (US $8,100 - $11,300) when it is auctioned on April 20. REUTERS/Paul Hackett (BRITAIN - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)

An employee poses with an earthenware ceramic cat artwork by British artist David Hockney at Bonhams auction house in London April 18, 2011. The work, made when Hockney was 18 years old is estimated to sell for £5,000 - £7,000 (US $8,100 - $11,300) when it is auctioned on April 20. REUTERS/Paul Hackett (BRITAIN - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)

An employee holds an earthenware ceramic cat artwork by British artist David Hockney at Bonhams auction house in London April 18, 2011. The work, made when Hockney was 18 years old is estimated to sell for £5,000 - £7,000 (US $ 8,100 - $11,300) when it is auctioned on April 20. REUTERS/Paul Hackett (BRITAIN - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)

An employee holds an earthenware ceramic cat artwork by British artist David Hockney at Bonhams auction house in London April 18, 2011. The work, made when Hockney was 18 years old is estimated to sell for £5,000 - £7,000 (US $ 8,100 - $11,300) when it is auctioned on April 20. REUTERS/Paul Hackett (BRITAIN - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)

Earthenware Phoenician potteries are seen at an excavation site in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon November 12, 2008. REUTERS/Haidar Hawila (LEBANON)

Archaeologists work on earthenware potteries found at an excavation site in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon November 12, 2008. REUTERS/Haidar Hawila (LEBANON)

An archaeologist unearths a Phoenician pottery found at an excavation site in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon November 12, 2008. Lebanese and Spanish archaeologists have discovered 2,900-year-old earthenware pottery that ancient Phoenicians used to store the bones of their dead after burning the corpses. REUTERS/ Haidar Hawila (LEBANON)

Palestinian pottery workers take out earthenware from a huge oven in
pottery factory in the West Bank city of Hebron October 7, 2003.
Pottery has been a traditional industry in Hebron but as a result of
the increased violence in the region over the last two years, the
pottery factory output has been reduced by almost two thirds.
REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun

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Palestinian pottery workers take out earthenware from a huge oven in pottery factory in the West Bank city of Hebron October 7, 2003. Pottery has been a traditional industry in Hebron but as a result of the increased violence in the region over the last two years, the pottery factory output has been reduced by almost two thirds.

A grape picker drinks from an earthenware jug during nocturnal grape picking in Fuentedepiedra, southern Spain, August 13, 2003. This type
of grape picking makes a better quality of white wine and it is the
first time that it has been tried in Andalucia. REUTERS/Rafael
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Two Bangladeshi workers stack clay pots at a firm near Dhaka on November 8, 2002. Earthenwares, like bowls and pots are used to store and pack sweetmeats, cards and various other items. [Demand for earthenwares shoot up across the country, including the capital Dhaka, during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which began in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh of over 130 million people on Thursday.]

Two Bangladeshi workers stack clay pots at a firm near Dhaka on
November 8, 2002. Earthenwares, like bowls and pots are used to store
and pack sweetmeats, cards and various other items. Demand for
earthenwares shoot up across the country, including the capital Dhaka,
during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which began in predominantly
Muslim Bangladesh of over 130 million people on Thursday. NO RIGHTS CLEARANCES OR PERMISSIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS IMAGE
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An ethnic Tivs man John Tushe salvages an earthen-ware pot from the
burnt-out ruins of his home at Zaki-Biam, Benue, Nigeria October 25,
2001. Soldiers, bent on avenging the death of 19 of their colleagues by
Tiv tribal men, killed over 132 people and destroyed houses in several
villages in central Nigeria. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo faced
mounting criticism on Friday over the apparent massacre of hundreds of
villagers by vengeful soldiers in central Nigeria. Picture taken
October 25, 2001.

REUTERS/George Esiri

An old woman waits for customers to sell earthenware water pots on a hot summer day in the Indian capital of New Delhi April 11. The temperature in the capital, with summer just beginning, surged to nearly 40 degrees centigrade. Poor people who cannot afford refrigerators buy these pots to store water during the peak summer months when the mercury goes upto 46 degrees centigrade.

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A painter put the final touches to earthenware in Peshawar November 17. Earthen pots for cooking, water and grain storing are cheap and commonly used by poor Pakistanis and people of the war-torn Afghanistan.

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An elderly peddler of earthenware pots waits for customers along a Manila pavement August 4. The entrepeneur says she has to continue to work in order to help her daughters and grandchildren cope with the high prices of basic commodities. A small pot sells for 25 pesos (50 U.S. cents).

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Czech President Vaclav Havel (R) toasts with an earthenware of beer with his Russian counterpart Boris Yeltsin in Prague`s pub at the historical centre of city