Poterie de Cliousclat, Pottery factory in Cliousclat, France.

Poterie de Cliousclat is an earthenware factory in a small village in the Drôme region that has produced dishes and decorative items from local clay for over 100 years. The production facilities include storage basins for raw materials, workshops, and a historical kiln.

The factory was established in the early 1900s to bring together the scattered potteries that existed throughout the village. The business later secured its own clay deposits and was eventually recognized as a protected historical monument.

The pottery is deeply rooted in the local community and run by artisans who shape both everyday dishes and decorative objects from clay. Visitors can watch craftspeople at their wheels and see how they pass on their skills.

The site lies in the village of Cliousclat, about 30 km south of Valence in Drôme Provençale. The whole complex — workshop, courtyard, settling basin and kiln — has been a listed monument historique since 18 November 1997. Restoration work began in autumn 2016 with the historic workshop and roofs, and new workshops and potters' housing followed in summer 2018; the sales area and exhibition space were still to come.

The clay from the "le Maupas" deposit, bought in 1919, gave no taste to food, which suited kitchenware, but it was porous and had to be glazed to become watertight. The factory also made small terracotta whistles called "rossignols", sometimes shaped as animals or figures; filled with water and blown, they imitated a nightingale. Antonin Anjaleras gave examples to the Paris MNATP in 1945, now kept at the MUCEM in Marseille.