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Ye Olde Curiosity Shop is a store founded in 1899, on the Central Waterfront of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is currently located on Pier 54. Best known today as a souvenir shop and museum, it also has aspects of a dime museum, and is an important supplier of Northwest Coast art to museums. As of 2008, the store has been owned by four ...
A Sèvres soup tureen and tray. Sèvres porcelain, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Silver-gilt tureen, Paris, 1769–70 An Émile Gallé (1846–1904) tureen A tureen is a serving dish for foods such as soups or stews, often shaped as a broad, deep, oval vessel with fixed handles and a low domed cover with a knob or handle.
The sale at auction in 2003 of a tureen in the form of a hen and chickens for £223,650 was then the auction record for English 18th-century porcelain. [54] In 2018 a pair of plaice-shaped tureens of c. 1755 from the collection of David Rockefeller and his wife fetched $300,000 (both sales at Christie's). [55]
The Lyrids will unfold first on the night of Monday, April 21, into Tuesday, April 22, with up to 20 meteors per hour. Just a few weeks later on the night of May 3-4, the Eta Aquarids will peak ...
Until the early 1990s, the character of University Village was decidedly different. Most of its businesses were small, and the chain stores were all local: Ernst Hardware and Malmo Nursery, Lamonts department store (acquired by Gottschalks in 2000), Pay 'n Save Drugs (sold to PayLess Drug in the early 1990s), and QFC supermarket, then a much smaller facility on the western side of the property ...
Jay Leno paid his dues by appearing on fellow comedian Bill Maher's "Club Random" podcast.. The former "Tonight Show" host clarified a floating rumor that injuries to his face were from a beating ...
A gunman has killed 12 people, including two children, in a series of shootings in southern Montenegro. Authorities said the man - later identified as Aco Martinovic, 45 - had been drinking ...
Blue Ridge china. Blue Ridge is a brand and range of American tableware manufactured by Southern Potteries Incorporated from the 1930s until 1957.Well known in their day for their underglaze decoration and colorful patterns, Blue Ridge pieces are now popular items with collectors of antique dishware.