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2. Toby Jug - Wikipedia

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   A Toby Jug, also sometimes known as a Fillpot (or Philpot), is a pottery jug in the form of a seated person; whereas a character jug features the head of a recognizable person. Typically the seated figure is a heavy-set, jovial man holding a mug of beer in one hand and a pipe of tobacco in the other and wearing 18th-century attire: a long coat ...

3. Bernard Leach - Wikipedia

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   Leach promoted pottery as a combination of Western and Eastern arts and philosophies. His work focused on traditional Korean, Japanese and Chinese pottery, in combination with traditional techniques from England and Germany, such as slipware and salt glaze ware. He saw pottery as a combination of art, philosophy, design and craft – even as a ...

4. Teofilo Garcia - Wikipedia

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   Garcia is known for crafting tabungaw hat, a type of Ilocano hat made from a variety of gourd (Cucurbitaceae) known locally as tabungaw. [2] [3] [4] Tabungaw . Garcia, who has five children, primarily works as a farmer. He primarily cultivates rice and tobacco and tends to a herd of cows.

5. Chinese ceramics - Wikipedia

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   The body is white, translucent and has the texture of very-fine sugar, indicating that it was made using crushed and refined pottery stone instead of pottery stone and kaolin. The glaze and the body of the bowl would have been fired together, in a saggar in a large wood-burning dragon kiln , typical of southern kilns in the period.

6. Westmoreland Glass Company - Wikipedia

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   Westmoreland's main production was pressed glass tableware lines, mustard jars, and candy containers. Westmoreland had its own mustard factory and tin shop on the property grounds of the factory. George West is regarded as the "Father of the Candy Container Industry" for the company's extensive production of candy containers.

7. Victoria and Albert Museum - Wikipedia

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   Extensive examples of ceramics especially Iznik pottery, glasswork including 14th-century lamps from mosques and metalwork are on display. The collection of Middle Eastern and Persian rugs and carpets is amongst the finest in the world, many were part of the Salting Bequest of 1909.

8. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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   Whereby Nazi scientists (including "father of rocket science" Wernher von Braun) were granted amnesty by the US in exchange for their secrets. Emilio Palma: An Argentine national who was the first person to be born in Antarctica. Assassination of Olof Palme: The murder of a Swedish prime minister that became one of the country's most durable ...