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The Musée Ariana, also known as the Musée suisse de la céramique et du verre (Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass), is a museum in Geneva, Switzerland.It is devoted to ceramic and glass artwork, and contains around 20,000 objects from the last 1,200 years, [1] representing the historic, geographic, artistic and technological breadth of glass and ceramic manufacture during this time.
John Van Dyke (politician) (1807–1878), American politician John Charles Van Dyke (1856–1932), American art historian and critic John Wesley Van Dyke (1849–1939), president of the Atlantic Refining Company, Philadelphia
After nearly a century Van Dyke remains the grandfather of almost all American desert writers. [6] Van Dyke died at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan on December 5, 1932. [2] He was the son of Judge John Van Dyke, and great grandson of John Honeyman, a spy for George Washington who played a critical role at the battle of Trenton.
Claude Champy (born September 12, 1944 [1] at Plaisir/Yvelines) is a French ceramist.. 1963/64 Claude Champy was taught in drawing at the Atelier Met de Penninghen et Jacques d’Andon, a private art school in Paris. 1964–1968 he studied ceramics with Pierre Fouquet at the École des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art in Paris. 1965 he stayed at La Borne where he met the leading ...
John Van Dyke (1849–1850), who died young. [5] Frederick William Van Dyke (b. 1852), a doctor who married Minnie E. Comstock in 1878. [1] Robert Van Dyke (1854–1885), a lawyer who married Mary Westphal. [1] John Charles Van Dyke (b. 1856), who was the librarian of Sage Library in New Brunswick, New Jersey. [1]
Ernest Grandidier (2 December 1833 – 1 July 1912) was a French industrialist, naturalist and art collector. The Grandidier family was very wealthy and in 1857 Ernest Grandidier, with his brother Alfred (1836–1921) and tutor Jules Janseen , went on a voyage to the Americas.
As a result of a decree of 26 December 2009, from 1 January 2010, the manufactory formed the public organisation Sèvres – Cité de la céramique (Sèvres – Ceramic City), along with the Musée national de la céramique. [12] On 1 May 2012, the Musée national de la porcelaine Adrien-Dubouché was also made part of this public organisation ...
Lord John Stuart and His Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart is a large oil painting by Anthony van Dyck, executed c. 1638. The life-size double portrait depicts the two youngest sons of Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox : Lord John Stewart (1621–1644) and Lord Bernard Stuart (1622–1645), aged about 17 and 16 respectively.