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No incentive? Don't you think they signed up for pottery class to, you know, learn how to do good pottery? That nobody wanted to be proud of their work?
(Btw, I heard this pottery story from a different source, and IIRC it was an adult pottery class, not a kids' one.)
I would say the majority of classes are signed up for because they're easy or part of required credits for a program.
I'm not sure that's true once you limit it to adult classes (far more likely to be taking the occasional class for fun), and particularly in the case of an art class.
A "class for fun" implies that grade shouldn't matter to the participants, so, allegedly, the two different grading schemes wouldn't affect the participants' behavior.
But things (such as motivation) change as a person who did pottery for fun at home, goes to do pottery for fun in a class, don't they?