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Porches Pottery is a producer of hand-painted pottery in the town of Porches, in the Algarve region of Portugal. The pottery style was founded in 1968 by artists Patrick Swift and Lima de Freitas , in order to revive a traditional Algarve pottery industry.
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Juni 1884 [146] Examples of typical pottery from Caldas da Rainha. Caldas da Rainha is well known for its glazed ceramic pottery (louça das Caldas). The New York Times has called Caldas "[t]he capital of Portuguese pottery". [17] The city is at "the center of a region rich in clay", where pottery has been made since the Neolithic Era.
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Castel-Branco Pereira, João – Portuguese tiles from the National Museum of Azulejo, Lisbon, 1995, ISBN 0-302-00661-3; Turner, J. – Tile – History and Uses, Portugal in Grove Dictionary of Art, MacMillan, 1996, ISBN 0-19-517068-7; The Rough Guide to Portugal – 11th edition March 2005 – ISBN 1-84353-438-X
Nicolau Chanterene (1485-1555), French sculptor and architect who worked mainly in Portugal and Spain; Eduardo Teixeira Coelho (1919-2005), comic book artist; Evelina Coelho (1945–2013), painter; José Dias Coelho (1923-1961) Jorge Colaço (1868-1942) João Cutileiro (1937-2021), sculptor especially of women's torsos in marble
The museum contains the largest public display of Lotus Ware, an award-winning fine porcelain ware produced only for a short period in the 1890s by the Knowles, Taylor, Knowles pottery of East Liverpool. [4] Also on display are collections of early Rockingham Pottery, ironstone, whiteware, yellow ware, and Victorian majolica.
It was in areas that had been recently added to Portuguese territory, thus more open to foreign influence, places where royal and ecclesiastical sponsorship were stronger, where French monastical communities settled in and foreign artists produced their works (like Coimbra and Lisbon), that we find the most artistically complete forms of Romanesque.