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2. Cutlery - Wikipedia

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   French travelling set of cutlery, 1550–1600, Victoria and Albert Museum An example of modern cutlery, design by architect and product designer Zaha Hadid (2007). Cutlery (also referred to as silverware, flatware, or tableware) includes any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in Western culture.

3. Trencher (tableware) - Wikipedia

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   The Middle Ages, Everyday Life in Medieval Europe by Jeffrey L. Singman (Sterling publishers) offers the following observation: "The place setting also included a trencher, a round slice of bread from the bottom or the top of an old loaf, having a hard crust and serving as a plate. After the meal, the sauce-soaked trenchers were probably ...

4. Deruta ceramics - Wikipedia

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   Dish with a Peacock Feather Pattern, c. 1470-1500. J. Paul Getty Museum Deruta maiolica plate, 17th-century, Arezzo museum. Deruta, a medieval hilltown in Umbria, Italy, is mainly known as a major centre for the production of maiolica (painted tin-glazed earthenware) in the Renaissance and later.

5. Maiolica - Wikipedia

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   Istoriato decoration on a plate from Castel Durante, c. 1550–1570 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille) Maiolica / m aɪ ˈ ɒ l ɪ k ə / is tin-glazed pottery decorated in colours on a white background. The most renowned Italian maiolica is from the Renaissance period.

6. Tableware - Wikipedia

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   Historic pewter, faience and glass tableware. In recent centuries, flatware is commonly made of ceramic materials such as earthenware, stoneware, bone china or porcelain.The popularity of ceramics is at least partially due to the use of glazes as these ensure the ware is impermeable, reduce the adherence of pollutants and ease washing.

7. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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   The ensigns armorial, set in all shapes and surrounded by all the curious mantling to be devised, appeared everywhere in conjunction with the family motto and with the intertwined initials of husband and wife, over gateways, over doorways, on dead-wall, over the fireplace; and stairways were decorated with carved monsters sitting on the ...