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2. Grueby Faience Company - Wikipedia

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   A 1906 Grueby Faience vase. The Grueby Faience Company, founded in 1894, was an American ceramics company that produced distinctive American art pottery vases and tiles during America's Arts and Crafts Movement . The company was founded in Revere, Massachusetts, by William Henry Grueby (Boston, 1867—New York, 1925), who had been inspired by ...

3. Portland Vase - Wikipedia

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   Registration. GR 1945.9-27.1 (Gems 4036) The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, which is dated to between AD 1 and AD 25, though low BC dates have some scholarly support. [ 1] It is the best known piece of Roman cameo glass and has served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century ...

4. Weller Pottery - Wikipedia

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   Weller Pottery. In 1872, Samuel A. Weller founded Weller Pottery in Fultonham, Ohio, United States. Originally, his business consisted of a small cabin and one beehive kiln, and Weller produced flower pots, bowls, crocks, and vases. [ 1] By 1905, Weller Pottery was the largest pottery in the country. It mass-produced art pottery until about ...

5. West German Art Pottery - Wikipedia

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   West German Art Pottery is essentially a term describing the time period of 1949–1990 and became the early way to describe the pottery because the country of origin, with numbers denoting the shape and size, was often the only "mark" on the base. Even though company names are now better known, and many items are attributed to specific makers ...

6. Manufacture nationale de Sèvres - Wikipedia

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   Removing the mould pieces from a vase. The factory retains a huge collection of moulds, going back to its beginning, and mixes the production of old and new shapes. Slipcasting is the main technique for "hollow" wares like vases. The kaolin was brought, traditionally, from Saint-Yrieix near Limoges. Nowadays there are many sources.

7. American art pottery - Wikipedia

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   American art pottery (sometimes capitalized) refers to aesthetically distinctive hand-made ceramics in earthenware and stoneware from the period 1870-1950s. Ranging from tall vases to tiles, the work features original designs, simplified shapes, and experimental glazes and painting techniques. Stylistically, most of this work is affiliated with ...

8. Typology of Greek vase shapes - Wikipedia

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   Further information: Ancient Greek vase painting. Greek pottery may be divided into four broad categories, given here with common types:[1] storage and transport vessels, including the amphora, pithos, pelike, hydria, stamnos, pyxis, mixing vessels, mainly for symposiaor male drinking parties, including the krater, dinos, and kyathos, jugs and ...

9. François Vase - Wikipedia

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   The François Vase, (or François Krater ), is a large Attic volute krater decorated in the black-figure style. It stands at 66 centimetres (26 in) in height and was inspired by earlier bronze vases. It was used for wine. A milestone in the development of ancient Greek pottery due to the drawing style used as well as the combination of related ...