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Memory Jug with Finial, in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A memory jug is an African American folk art form that memorializes the dead. It is a general term for a vessel whose surface is adorned with an assortment of broken china, glass shards, and small objects, especially items associated with a dead person.
Trencadís (Catalan pronunciation: [tɾəŋkəˈðis]), also known as pique assiette, broken tile mosaics, bits and pieces, memoryware, and shardware, is a type of mosaic made from cemented-together tile shards and broken chinaware. [1] [2] Glazed china tends to be preferred, and glass is sometimes mixed in as well, as are other small materials ...
While often made in pottery, some manufacturers such as Shelley produced bone china chintzware, particularly after World War II. [1] Chintzware was also copied at the time by German, Czech and Japanese manufacturers. Royal Winton began reproducing a few of their chintz patterns in the mid-to-late 1990s. [1]
The basement, attic, and closets are likely the least visited places in your home. Your missing glove, old yearbooks, Aunt Lucy's broken china you can't bear to part with—who knows what you'll find?
There are 11 essays in the book. [1]The book starts with two essays, one by Cynthia J. Brokaw and Joseph McDermott. The former examines how the book publishing cultures differ between China and Western countries and her advocacy for studying things in the Annales school style, [1] while McDermott's essay, "The Ascendance of Imprint in China," explores how printing developed in the Ming dynasty.
Americans have abandoned 29.2 million 401(k) accounts holding trillions in assets. You can find them using a new government database or calling past employers.
The IRS has gradually rolled out a program to allow Americans to directly file taxes with the IRS. It's designed to make filing taxes simpler and easier.
The list of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad (Chinese: 禁止出境展览文物; pinyin: Jìnzhǐ Chūjìng Zhǎnlǎn Wénwù) comprises a list of antiquities and archaeological artifacts held by various museums and other institutions in the People's Republic of China, which the Chinese government has officially prohibited, since 2003, from being taken abroad for ...