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2. Porches Pottery - Wikipedia

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   Porches Pottery is a producer of hand-painted pottery in the town of Porches, in the Algarve region of Portugal. The pottery style was founded in 1968 by artists Patrick Swift and Lima de Freitas, in order to revive a traditional Algarve pottery industry. Swift and de Freitas chose Porches for its history as a pottery centre, dating back for ...

3. Azulejo - Wikipedia

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   Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈle(j)ʒu, ɐzuˈlɐjʒu], Spanish:; from the Arabic الزليج, al-zillīj) [1] [2] is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework. Azulejos are found on the interior and exterior of churches , palaces , ordinary houses, schools, and nowadays, restaurants, bars and even railways or subway ...

4. Palissy ware - Wikipedia

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   Portuguese Palissy ware wall plate 12.2 in, c. 1880, maker Jose F Sousa depicting crayfish, mussels, sea urchin and shells. Portuguese Palissy ware was produced by the potteries of Mafra, Jose Alves Cunha, José Francisco de Sousa, Cezar, Herculano Elias, and Augusto Baptista de Carvalho. [3] Twentieth-century reproductions are extremely common.

5. Camille Le Tallec - Wikipedia

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   Over 60 years, Le Tallec has maintained traditional hand-painted porcelain. He preserved and revisited about 375 original and historical patterns signed by the Le Tallec's marks . [ 5 ] Atelier Le Tallec was inducted as a member of the Grands Ateliers de France (the fifty best studios in France) in 2000.

6. Ceramics Museum of Sacavém - Wikipedia

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   The Ceramics Museum of Sacavém (Portuguese: Museu de Cerâmica de Sacavém) is situated in the town of Sacavém in the municipality of Loures, just northeast of Lisbon in Portugal. The museum was opened in July 2000 and was constructed on the grounds of a former ceramics factory. Most of the exhibits reflect the output of that factory and its ...

7. Algarve - Wikipedia

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   Algarve ceramic and pottery shop in Lagos. The Algarve is also famous for its pottery and ceramics, particularly hand-painted pottery and azulejos, which are painted, tin-glazed ceramic tiles. Numerous ceramics and pottery outlets are open throughout the Algarve, including a number of potteries established by foreign artists interested in the ...