Edmond François Paul Pottier (13 August 1855,Saarbrücken – 4 July 1934, Paris) was anart historian andarchaeologist who was instrumental in establishing theCorpus vasorum antiquorum. He was a pioneering scholar in the study ofAncient Greek pottery.

He was born inSaarbrücken, Rhineland, the son of a civil engineer he won a place at theLycée Condorcet and went on to study at theÉcole Normale Supérieure and theÉcole d'Athènes, his thesis was on the subject of the chronology of Athenianarchons. It was during his tenure as a curator at theLouvre that he organised the first meeting of theUnion Académique Internationale aimed at establishing the complete corpus ofGreek vases held in the national collections of every nation in 1919, theCorpus vasorum antiquorum. He produced the first fascicule for the Louvre in 1922.

Under the pseudonymJacques Morel his wife was a writer who won the 1912Prix Femina with the bookFeuilles mortes.

In 1908 his book on the vase painterDouris,Douris et les peintres des vases grecs, was translated into English and published as "Douris and the painters of Greek vases".^[1] Other noteworthy works by Pottier include:

• Étude sur les lécythes blancs attiques à représentations funéraires, 1883 – Study on the whitelekythoi ofAttica.
• La nécropole de Myrina: recherches archéologiques exécutées au nom et aux frais de l'École française d'Athènes, 1887 (withSalomon Reinach; A. Veyries; École française d'Athènes) – The necropolis atMyrina: archaeological research performed on behalf of the French School of Athens.
• Les Statuettes de terre cuite dans l'antiquité, 1890 –Terracotta statuettes of ancient times.
• Vases antiques du Louvre, 2 volumes, 1897-1901 – Antique vases of the Louvre.
• Diphilos et les modeleurs de terres cuites grecques, 1908 – Diphilos and Greek terracotta modelers.
• Le dessin chez les grecs d'après les vases peints, 1926 – Greek design in regards to its painted vases.
• L'art hittite, 2 volumes, 1926-31 – Hittite art.^[2]

• Phillippe Rouet:Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases, Beazley and Pottier, Oxford, 2001.
• Medwid, Linda M. The Makers of Classical Archaeology: A Reference Work. New York: Humanity Books, 2000 pp. 247–8.

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