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  2. Artisanal Talavera of Puebla and Tlaxcala - Wikipedia

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    In 1986, the Franz Mayer Museum opened in Mexico City with the largest collection of Talavera Poblana in the world – 726 pieces from the 17th through the 19th century, and some 20th-century pieces by Enrique Luis Ventosa. In Puebla, José Luis Bello y González and his son José Mariano Bello y Acedo sought the advice of Ventosa in starting ...

  3. Mexican ceramics - Wikipedia

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    It was named after a 19th-century local hero who fought against the Apaches. [78] It is the home of Juan Quezada, who is credited for creating Mata Ortiz or Pakimé style pottery. When he was fourteen, he came across the abandoned pre-Hispanic village of Pakimé along with fragments of its pottery.

  4. Hispano-Moresque ware - Wikipedia

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    When Spanish medieval pottery was first studied in the 19th century, there was awareness of the Valencian centres but very little of the Al-Andalus ones, and there has been a steady re-attribution of types of pottery formerly attributed to Manises to Malaga and the south, which was still continuing in the 1980s, following archaeological ...

  5. American stoneware - Wikipedia

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    Potters occasionally substituted manganese or iron oxide for cobalt oxide to produce brown, instead of blue, decorations on the pottery. In the last half of the 19th century, potters in New England and New York state began producing stoneware with elaborate figural designs such as deer, dogs, birds, houses, people, historical scenes and other ...

  6. Thomas Commeraw - Wikipedia

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    An exhibition of early American pottery in 1931 presented a “Commeraw Stoneware Jug.” [2] Although the catalogue did not yet reflect the erroneous spelling of “Commereau” that would become popular with later pottery catalogues, such as Ketchum's important record of New York potters, it also did not mention the ethnicity of Commeraw, leaving the reader to assume that he was an American ...

  7. Catawba Valley Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Catawba Valley Pottery describes alkaline glazed stoneware made in the Catawba River Valley of Western North Carolina from the early 19th century, as well as certain contemporary pottery made in the region utilizing traditional methods and forms. The earliest Catawba Valley pottery was earthenware made by the Catawba people. [1]

  8. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    He asked local artists to draw pictures and the shop generated limited edition prints, based on the ukiyo-e workshop system of Japan. Cooperative print shops were also established in nearby communities, including Baker Lake, Puvirnituq, Holman, and Pangnirtung. These shops have experimented with etching, engraving, lithography, and silkscreen ...

  9. Bolesławiec pottery - Wikipedia

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    The 19th-century heyday for Bunzlauer ceramics came in the 1870s, when close to 20 different family-run pottery shops were in operation in Bunzlau itself, and some 35 in the neighboring town of Naumburg am Queis (Nowogrodziec). [14] A large number of potters were apprenticed during this period and many of them succeeded in opening their own shops.