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The Teco Pottery was founded in Terra Cotta, Illinois, in 1899 by William Day Gates, as a specialty branch of his American Terra Cotta Tile and Ceramic Company, which made architectural terra cotta items like drain tiles and chimney tops. Gates's experiments with glazes and forms led him to found Teco (an acronym for TErra COtta) to create art ...
Terracotta flower pots with terracotta tiles in the background Due to its porosity, fired earthenware, with a water absorption of 5-8%, must be glazed to be watertight. [ 11 ] Earthenware has lower mechanical strength than bone china, porcelain or stoneware, and consequently articles are commonly made in thicker cross-section, although they are ...
Joan of Arc Cane Stand by Goldscheider, circa 1897/1914. Sakka-ha, Terracotta Figure by Goldscheider, circa 1895. Goldscheider Porcelain Manufactory and Majolica Factory (German: Goldscheider'sche Porzellan-Manufactur und Majolica-Fabrik; later: Goldscheider Keramik) was an Austrian ceramic manufactory, which specialized in porcelain, terracotta, faience, and bronze decorative objects.
The former Gladding, McBean & Co.'s Lincoln factory was purchased by Pacific Coast Building Products in 1976 and continues to produce sewer pipe, architectural terra cotta, and terra cotta garden ware. Pacific Clay Products discontinued manufacturing tableware, art ware, and figurines in 1942.
Glazed architectural terra cotta is a ceramic masonry building material used as a decorative skin. It featured widely in the 'terracotta revival' [ 1 ] from the 1880s until the 1930s. It was used in the UK, United States , Canada and Australia and is still one of the most common building materials found in U.S. urban environments.
In art, pottery, applied art, craft, construction and architecture, "terracotta" is a term often used for red-coloured earthenware sculptures or functional articles such as flower pots, water and waste water pipes, tableware, roofing tiles and surface embellishment on buildings. In such applications, the material is also called terracotta.
Friedrich Goldscheider (6 November 1845 – 19 January 1897) was a Bohemia-born Austrian entrepreneur and manufacturer of ceramics and bronze. [1] [2] His business was Goldscheider ceramics (Goldscheider Keramik; formerly Goldscheider Porcelain Manufactory and Majolica Factory, German: Goldscheider'sche Porzellan-Manufactur und Majolica-Fabrik). [3]
Modern bowl in a traditional pattern, made in Faenza, Italy, which gave its name to the type Sophisticated Rococo Niderviller faience, by a French factory that also made porcelain, 1760–65. Faience or faïence (/ f aɪ ˈ ɑː n s, f eɪ ˈ-,-ˈ ɒ̃ s /; French: ⓘ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery.