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The molds and equipment were sold to the US Glass Company, where their Duncan Division in Tiffin, Ohio continued to produce Duncan-ware pieces. [1] [3] A number of Duncan employees also joined US Glass Company in Tiffin. [3] The Duncan factory was sold to Andy Bros., but before they could move in, a fire destroyed the building on June 29, 1956. [1]
Ceramic molding, an ancient practice dating back centuries, emerged following humanity's discovery of fire. The experimentation with clay and fire marked the inception of the technique now known as ceramic molding or pottery. Archaeologists have unearthed various types of pottery, each intricately connected to the historical context of the ...
The mold is filled with finely ground glass that can be built up in layers in order to form sequences and patterns of different shapes and colours. The technique could be described as being somewhat similar to creating a sand "painting" or to filling a bottle with different-coloured sands and is called the "vertical-mold dry powder glass ...
Ceramic Originals by Freeman-Leidy, crane figurine. Key milestones in the history of California pottery include: the arrival of Spanish settlers, the advent of statehood and subsequent population growth, the Arts and Crafts movement , Great Depression , World War II era and the post-WWII onslaught of low-priced imports leading to a steep ...
Streptocarpus ionanthus flowers. Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia is a section within Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella [1] consisting of about ten species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Tanzania and adjacent southeastern Kenya in eastern tropical Africa.
David Drake is thought to have been born the first half of the year 1800 on a plantation in South Carolina, enslaved by the Drake family. [3] The first legal record of Drake is from June 13, 1818, that describes "a boy about 17 years old country born" who was "mortgaged to Eldrid Simkins by Harvey Drake". [6]
African Red Slip flagons and vases, 2nd-4th century AD A typical plain African Red Slip dish with simple rouletted decoration. 4th century. African red slip ware, also African Red Slip or ARS, is a category of terra sigillata, or "fine" Ancient Roman pottery produced from the mid-1st century AD into the 7th century in the province of Africa Proconsularis, specifically that part roughly ...
Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a Scottish painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group . His father was Bartle Grant, a "poverty-stricken" major in the army, and much of his early childhood was spent in India and Burma .