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At the beginning of the last century, the arts and crafts movement in England and the United States was encouraging a shift in the making of high-quality decorative arts, moving the location of these endeavors from large manufactories to modest artists' studios. Although this transformation was played out in many ways, none is perhaps so fascinating as the development of the Overbeck Pottery bet-ween 1911 and 1955 by four talented sisters living in the family house in Cambridge City, Indiana, Together these enterprising women produced some of the most inventive and engaging work on the American ceramics scene during a period when innovation and novelty were critical ...