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  2. Limoges Box - Wikipedia

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    Limoges porcelain boxes were first created in the mid-18th century after Jacques Turgot, Finance Minister of King Louis XVI, gave a Royal edict to the city of Limoges, France the exclusive right to produce Royal Limoges porcelain for the Kingdom of France. The first Limoges trinket boxes were long narrow containers that were created for ...

  3. Suzuri-bako - Wikipedia

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    Suzuri-bako (硯箱; "inkstone box") are a type of Japanese writing box. The boxes are traditionally made of lacquered wood and are used to hold writing implements. [ 1 ] Historically, the boxes were associated with calligraphy , and as such they were made using high-quality materials designed to safeguard porcelain inkstones ( suzuri ) from ...

  4. Toilet service - Wikipedia

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    A toilet service is a set of objects for use at the dressing table. The term is usually reserved for large luxury sets from the 17th to 19th centuries, with toilet set or vanity set [1] used for later or simpler sets. Historically, services were made in metal, ceramics, and other materials, for both men and women, though male versions were ...

  5. Box - Wikipedia

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    A wooden box with a hinged lid An empty corrugated fiberboard box An elaborate late 17th to early 18th century box (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) A box (plural: boxes) is a container with rigid sides used for the storage or transportation of its contents. Most boxes have flat, parallel, rectangular sides (typically rectangular prisms).

  6. Tunbridge ware - Wikipedia

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    Early makers of Tunbridge ware, in Tunbridge Wells in the mid 18th century, were the Burrows family, and Fenner and Co. In the 19th century, around 1830, James Burrows invented a technique of creating mosaics from wooden tesserae. Henry Hollamby, apprenticed to the Burrows family, set up on his own in 1842 and became an important manufacturer ...

  7. Music box - Wikipedia

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    The popular device best known today as a "music box" developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and were originally called carillons à musique (French for "chimes of music"). Some of the more complex boxes also contain a tiny drum and/or bells in addition to the metal comb.

  8. Salt cellar - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, the development of Sheffield plate (18th century), then electroplating (19th century), led to mass production of affordable silver-plated wares, including salt cellars. Salt shakers began to appear in the Victorian era , [ 15 ] and patents show attempts to deal with the problem of salt clumping, but they remained the exception rather ...

  9. Vienna porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Service set - a tray and two jugs, c. 1770. National Museum in Warsaw Chinoiserie plate, 1730–1735, Du Paquier period. Vienna porcelain is the product of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory (German: Kaiserlich privilegierte Porcellain Fabrique), a porcelain manufacturer in Alsergrund in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1718 and continued until ...

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