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Innisfree (Korean: 이니스프리) is a South Korean cosmetics brand owned and founded by Amore Pacific in 2000. The brand name derives from Irish poet W. B. Yeats ' poem, 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree '.
The traditional ‘Made in France’ label is an incontestable draw for customers – the Pro France Ifop survey [3] (September 2018) reported that two thirds of French people ‘often’ or ‘systematically’ take the product’s origin into account when they buy a product or service, and that three quarters of French people would be ...
Huge amounts especially of silver were sent from Europe to China [2] to pay for the desired Chinese porcelain wares, and numerous attempts were made to duplicate the material. [3] It was in Nevers faience that Chinese-style blue and white wares were produced for the first time in France, with production running between 1650 and 1680. [4]
Remarkably little hard-paste porcelain has ever been made in England, and bone china remains the vast majority of English production to the present day. Recipes were closely guarded, as illustrated by the story of Robert Brown, a founding partner in the Lowestoft porcelain factory, who is said to have hidden in a barrel in Bow to observe the ...
Made in China or Made in PRC is a country of origin label, often in English, affixed to products wholly or partially made in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The label became prominent in the 1990s, when foreign companies based in the United States, Europe, and Asia moved their manufacturing operations to China due to China's low ...
Canton or Cantonese porcelain is the characteristic style of ceramic ware decorated in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong and (prior to 1842) the sole legal port for export of Chinese goods to Europe.
In 1942, [6] after three years of experimentation, Gladding, McBean & Co. entered the fine china market with 14 patterns. The china was considered to have a medium to high cost. [7] The glaze for the fine china line was developed by Max Compton with the shapes and patterns designed by Mary K. Grant, the design staff, and by contract designers.
Bow parrot, c. 1760. The green and the crimson-purple on the base are two of Bow's distinctive colours. The Bow porcelain factory (active c. 1747–64 and closed in 1776) was an emulative rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in the manufacture of early soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain.