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  2. Chelsea porcelain factory - Wikipedia

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    Chelsea porcelain is the porcelain made by the Chelsea porcelain manufactory, the first important porcelain manufactory in England, established around 1743–45, and operating independently until 1770, when it was merged with Derby porcelain. [2]

  3. William Duesbury - Wikipedia

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    Basket, c. 1758–1760. Duesbury was born on 7 September 1725. [2] to William Duesbury, currier, of Cannock in Staffordshire.[3]Around 1742 he was working as an "enameller" painting china in London, where he remained until 1753; he decorated Chelsea porcelain and perhaps other wares.

  4. Porcelain manufacturing companies in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The manufacture began to produce porcelain only in 1800 [1] 1770: Rörstrand: Stockholm: Sweden: The company was established in 1726; however, it began to produce porcelain wares only in the 1770s 1771: Limoges porcelain: Limoges: France: Limoges maintains the position it established in the 19th century as the premier manufacturing city of ...

  5. List of museums in Paris - Wikipedia

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    This list also includes suburban museums within the "Grand Paris" area, such as the Air and Space Museum. The sixteen museums of the City of Paris are annotated with "VP", as well as six other ones also accommodated in municipal premises and the Musées de France (fr) listed by the ministry of culture are annotated with "MF".

  6. French porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Nast porcelain (1783–1835) and Dihl and Guérhard (1781–1828) were two of a number of factories making very high-quality porcelain in Paris in the decades around 1800. This contrasted with London, where the factories had all closed or removed north by 1775, although the capital remained, like Paris, a centre for decorating plain "blanks ...

  7. Sèvres – Cité de la céramique - Wikipedia

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    Sèvres – Cité de la céramique (Sèvres City of Ceramics) is a French national ceramics museum located at the Place de la Manufacture, Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris, France. It was created in January 2010, from the merger of the Musée national de Céramique-Sèvres and the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres . [ 1 ]

  8. File:The Elements, Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory ...

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ary.wikipedia.org عناصر كلاسيكية; Usage on bcl.wikipedia.org Klasikong elemento; Usage on be-tarask.wikipedia.org

  9. Musée Nissim de Camondo - Wikipedia

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    The nearest Paris Métro stops are Villiers and Monceau on Line 2. The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau describes the museum as housing "a spectacular collection of French decorative art from the second half of the 18th century. Admire Aubusson tapestries, canvases by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun or items that once belonged to Marie-Antoinette.