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The majority of the district's buildings were constructed during Springfield's population boom in the 1860s and its subsequent growth in the latter half of the 19th century. These buildings included hotels, drug stores, groceries, clothing stores, and dry goods stores; some of the stores built in this period are still in operation.
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Typical "Wedgwood blue" jasperware plate with white sprigged reliefs. Wedgwood pieces (left to right): c. 1930, c. 1950, 1885 Wedgwood is an English fine china, porcelain and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 [1] by the potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and was first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. [2]
Diameter 18.8 cm. Nabeshima ware plate with floral design, Arita, Japan, late 17th century, Edo period. Overglaze decoration , overglaze enamelling , or on-glaze decoration, is a method of decorating pottery , most often porcelain , where the coloured decoration is applied on top of the already fired and glazed surface, and then fixed in a ...
Works made during the 18th century form the larger concentration, including pottery, porcelain, silver, furniture. Donations from the Folgers Coffee Corporation and the Wallenstein family add other media to the understanding of 18th-century art and culture. Outside of 18th century art is the collection of 19th-21st century works.
Edme-François Gersaint's shop, in Antoine Watteau's L'Enseigne de Gersaint, in form a shop sign, though never used as such.. A marchand-mercier [1] is a French term for a type of entrepreneur working outside the guild system of craftsmen but carefully constrained by the regulations of a corporation under rules codified in 1613. [2]
English delftware is a term for English faience, mostly of the 17th and early 18th centuries. Not all of it imitated Dutch delftware, though much did. It was replaced by the much better creamware and other types of refined earthenware Staffordshire pottery developed in the 18th century, many of which did not need tin-glazes to achieve a white ...
The production of Derby porcelain dates from the second half of the 18th century, although the authorship and the exact start of the production remains today as a matter of conjecture. The oldest remaining pieces in the late 19th century bore only the words "Darby" and "Darbishire" and the years 1751-2-3 as proof of place and year of manufacture.