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Vista Alegre is a luxury Portuguese porcelain manufacturer located in Ílhavo in the district of Aveiro, Portugal. [1] By May 2001, Grupo Vista Alegre joined with the Atlantis group and created the largest national tableware Group and the sixth in the world in this speciality: the Grupo Vista Alegre Atlantis. Fabrica de Porcelana Vista Alegre ...
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.
Category: Portuguese pottery. 2 languages. Português; ... Buildings and structures with azulejos in Portugal (10 P) C. Ceramics manufacturers of Portugal (3 P)
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
Portuguese Palissy ware wall plate 12.2 in, c. 1880, maker Jose F Sousa depicting crayfish, mussels, sea urchin and shells. Portuguese Palissy ware was produced by the potteries of Mafra, Jose Alves Cunha, José Francisco de Sousa, Cezar, Herculano Elias, and Augusto Baptista de Carvalho. [3] Twentieth-century reproductions are extremely common.
Best for: History. Portugal’s capital city of Lisbon is sure to satisfy the couple lusting for a historic (and hilly) city break with viewpoints made for picnics, pastel de nata tart in hand ...
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.
The Ceramics Museum of Sacavém (Portuguese: Museu de Cerâmica de Sacavém) is situated in the town of Sacavém in the municipality of Loures, just northeast of Lisbon in Portugal. The museum was opened in July 2000 and was constructed on the grounds of a former ceramics factory. Most of the exhibits reflect the output of that factory and its ...