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2. Wulfing cache - Wikipedia

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   The Wulfing cache, or Malden plates, are eight Mississippian copper plates crafted by peoples of the Mississippian culture. They were discovered in Dunklin County, Missouri in 1906 by Ray Grooms, a farmer, while plowing a field south of Malden. [1] The repousséd copper plates were instrumental to archaeologists' developing the concept known as ...

3. Mississippian copper plates - Wikipedia

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   Unworked copper nugget. The native copper, as well as the technique of cold working it, is believed to have come from the Great Lakes area, hundreds of miles to the north of the Cahokia polity and most other Mississippian culture sites, although the copper workshops discovered near Mound 34 at Cahokia are so far the only copper workshops found at a Mississippian culture archaeological site. [5]

4. Lustreware - Wikipedia

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   Lustreware. Lustreware or lusterware (the respective spellings for British English and American English) is a type of pottery or porcelain with a metallic glaze that gives the effect of iridescence. It is produced by metallic oxides in an overglaze finish, which is given a second firing at a lower temperature in a "muffle kiln", or a reduction ...

5. Famous Women Dinner Service - Wikipedia

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   The Famous Women Dinner Service is a set of 50 dinnerplates, each hand-decorated by Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Commissioned as a dinner service without a brief by art historian and museum director Kenneth Clark in 1932, the set was made between 1932 and 1934. It represents 48 notable women, with another two plates ...

6. Charger (table setting) - Wikipedia

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   The word "charger" originated around 1275–1325 from the Middle English "chargeour", coming itself from the latin word carricare, meaning “to load". [2] Formerly, a charger signified either a large platter or a large, shallow dish for liquids. [3] They are usually larger than most common dinner plates. Since they are not used for food ...

7. Bodleian Plate - Wikipedia

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   The Bodleian Plate is a copperplate depicting several colonial buildings of 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia, as well as several types of native flora, fauna, and American Indians. Following its 1929 rediscovery in the archives of the Bodleian Library , it was used extensively in John D. Rockefeller Jr. 's reconstruction of Colonial ...