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  2. Rouen faience - Wikipedia

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    A pair of uncoloured white busts of Anthony and Cleopatra are now in the ceramic museum in Rouen, and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [22] Other exceptionally large pieces are very rare pairs of celestial and terrestrial globes on pedestals, and some large table-tops. [23]

  3. Ceramic - Wikipedia

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    Ceramic material is an inorganic, metallic oxide, nitride, or carbide material. Some elements, such as carbon or silicon, may be considered ceramics. Ceramic materials are brittle, hard, strong in compression, and weak in shearing and tension. They withstand the chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic ...

  4. Porcelain tile - Wikipedia

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    Porcelain tiles or ceramic tiles are either tiles made of porcelain, or relatively tough ceramic tiles made with a variety of materials and methods, that are suitable for use as floor tiles, or for walls. They have a low water absorption rate, generally less than 0.5 percent. The clay used to build porcelain tiles is generally denser than ...

  5. California pottery - Wikipedia

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    Ceramic Originals by Freeman-Leidy, crane figurine. Key milestones in the history of California pottery include: the arrival of Spanish settlers, the advent of statehood and subsequent population growth, the Arts and Crafts movement , Great Depression , World War II era and the post-WWII onslaught of low-priced imports leading to a steep ...

  6. Chinese ceramics - Wikipedia

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    They range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated Chinese porcelain wares made for the imperial court and for export. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and the first pottery was made during the Palaeolithic era.

  7. J. B. Owens Pottery Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1905, Owens Pottery began making tiles, and this line quickly grew to dominate production, with the result that the Zanesville Tile Company was incorporated to handle this end of the business. [2] Around 1907 Owens sold most of his stake in both companies, only to buy them back by 1909 after other investors pushed the tile business into ...

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