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Dish with opalescent blue and lavender splashed glazes, Jin dynasty (1115–1234) The glaze of Jun ware is always thick and opaque. It is often very thin or absent around the rim, but thick at the foot, where it typically leaves a small part uncovered. Both the light blue and purple colours are first seen in Chinese pottery in Jun wares.
Aluminia was a Danish factory of faience or earthenware pottery, established in Copenhagen in 1863. Philip Schou (1838-1922) was the founding owner of the Aluminia factory in Christianshavn . In 1882, the owners of Aluminia purchased the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory.
Factory marks are essential in the area of porcelain production especially, where they are sometimes also called "backstamps", and where their absence would make authentication much more difficult. [10] It is frequently claimed that the first factory mark on the European porcelain, in the shape of crossed swords, appeared on the Meissen pieces ...
The Blue Onion pattern was designed by Johann Gregor Herold in 1739 likely inspired by a Chinese bowl from the Kangxi period. The pattern it was modelled after by Chinese porcelain painters, featured pomegranates unfamiliar in Saxony, so the plates and bowls produced in the Meissen factory in 1740 created their own style and feel.
The firm was Europe's second-oldest porcelain factory after Meissen porcelain, and for 25 years the two remained the only European producers. Initially it was a private enterprise, founded by Claude du Paquier , [ 1 ] an official of the Viennese Imperial court, but in 1744 it was rescued from financial difficulties when bought by the Empress ...
Pot Pourri with a scene of Tintern Abbey, painted and monogrammed by George Leighton Parkinson (210 mm tall) Light Blue Fern Pot with incised decoration. c1883-90 (105 mm tall) Brown Fern Pot with incised decoration. c1883-90 (120 mm tall) Langley Mill Pottery was located in Langley Mill, Derbyshire on the Derbyshire – Nottinghamshire border.
Each porcelain decorated by the Atelier Camille Le Tallec in Paris is signed by an LT motif in a Sèvres-like mark. Inside the LT motif appear two series of letters. [ 1 ] First, a letter code in the upper part indicating the date of production of the piece, and second the initials of the piece's painter in the lower part.
The earliest pottery, starting in the 1540s, specialized in large patterns and images made up of coloured tiles. A century later the king granted a fifty-year monopoly, and a factory was established by 1647. The wares this made are now hard to distinguish from those of other centres, but the business was evidently successful.