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Bolesławiec pottery was created as a mainly functional product, and still is functional today although the designs have increased in quality and intricacy. It falls in a very different category from fine English and Asian china and pottery that demands high prices in today's marketplace. [22] Still, Bolesławiec pottery is not inexpensive.
Their signature product was artisan-crafted teapots. Starting in 1966, the Cultural Revolution [2] led Factory No. 1 to begin to produce utilitarian pots in a style known as shui ping hu in vast numbers. Instead of having the name of the craftsman who made the pot on the bottom, these pots had characters that represented Yixing. [3]
Vintage Revere Ware, manufactured before 1968 and carrying the prized "Process Patent" maker's mark on the thick copper bottom, is finding its way back into modern kitchens. (Photo courtesy of Blane van Pletzen-Rands) Revere Ware was a line of consumer and commercial kitchen wares introduced in 1939 by the Revere Copper and Brass Corp.
An umakaki is a trimming harp used to level flat, wide surfaces, such as the bottom of a shallow dish or plate. Kushi are not strictly throwing tools; these combs are used to score a minimum of two decorative parallel lines on pot surfaces. The largest combs have about 20 teeth. A take bon bon is also not a throwing tool, but a Japanese slip ...
"Brown Betty" teapot made by Joseph Bourne & Son Ltd "Brown Betty" teapots made by James Sadler and Sons Ltd. A Brown Betty is a type of teapot, round and with a manganese brown glaze known as Rockingham glaze. [1] [2] The original teapots came from a red clay that was discovered in the Stoke-on-Trent area of Britain, in 1695. This clay ...
It mostly produced "useful wares" such as pots, teapots, and jugs, with shapes copied from silverwork or from Bow and Worcester porcelain. [2] The factory, built on the site of an existing pottery or brick kiln, was later used as a brewery and malt kiln. Most of its remaining buildings were demolished in 1955. [3]
The bottom-line performance of the "Magnificent Seven" has, over the last two years, even managed to mask an outright earnings downturn for the rest of the index, the "S&P 493." That earnings ...
The first Yixing clay teapots were made in the 16th century by monks from the Jinsha Temple. Their use was popularized by Kung Ch'un, who became a servant in the house of Yixing tea master Wu Lun (1440-1522). [2] The new teapots soon became popular with the scholarly class, and the fame of Yixing teapots began to spread.