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  2. Biscuit (pottery) - Wikipedia

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    A bisque porcelain bust. Biscuit [1] [2] [3] [4] (also known as bisque) refers to any pottery that has been fired in a kiln without a ceramic glaze.This can be a ...

  3. Biscuit porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Biscuit porcelain, bisque porcelain or bisque is unglazed, white porcelain treated as a final product, [1] [2] with a matte appearance and texture to the touch. It has been widely used in European pottery , mainly for sculptural and decorative objects that are not tableware and so do not need a glaze for protection.

  4. Hispano-Moresque ware - Wikipedia

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    Of Manises ware, Alan Caiger-Smith has written, "the sustained production of fine pieces at Manises during the years 1380–1430 is without parallel in the history of ceramics. Many of these vessels will keep their place among the world's finest pottery for ever; regardless of changes and outlook." [24]

  5. Earthenware - Wikipedia

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    One of the life-size Yixian glazed pottery luohans. Modern earthenware may be biscuit (or "bisque") [13] [14] fired to temperatures between 1,000 and 1,150 °C (1,830 and 2,100 °F) and glost-fired [15] (or "glaze-fired") [4] [16] to between 950 and 1,050 °C (1,740 and 1,920 °F). Some studio potters follow the reverse practice, with a low ...

  6. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    The earliest history of pottery production in the Fertile Crescent starts the Pottery Neolithic and can be divided into four periods, namely: the Hassuna period (7000–6500 BC), the Halaf period (6500–5500 BC), the Ubaid period (5500–4000 BC), and the Uruk period (4000–3100 BC). By about 5000 BC pottery-making was becoming widespread ...

  7. Hooked on History: CBS TV series dramatized 1947 Scio Pottery ...

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    It told the story of Lew Reese, a businessman who had turned an abandoned pottery into a thriving business, only to suffer a setback in 1947. Hooked on History: CBS TV series dramatized 1947 Scio ...

  8. Parian ware - Wikipedia

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    Parian "Nelson Jug" (1851) Parian ware is a type of biscuit porcelain imitating marble.It was developed around 1845 by the Staffordshire pottery manufacturer Mintons, and named after Paros, the Greek island renowned for its fine-textured, white Parian marble, used since antiquity for sculpture.

  9. Bisque doll - Wikipedia

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    A bisque doll or porcelain doll is a doll made partially or wholly out of bisque or biscuit porcelain. Bisque dolls are characterized by their realistic, skin-like matte finish. They had their peak of popularity between 1860 and 1900 with French and German dolls. Bisque dolls are collectible, and antique dolls can be worth thousands of dollars.

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