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  2. Bristol porcelain - Wikipedia

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    This part of the industry continued well into the 19th century, while the various porcelain producers proved short-lived. [3] Bristol was also the largest city in the West Country , which includes the Cornish sites where china stone , an essential ingredient for hard-paste porcelain and bone china , was discovered in the 1740s.

  3. Mintons - Wikipedia

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    Mintons was a major company in Staffordshire pottery, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", [1] an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, decorative techniques, and "a glorious pot-pourri of styles - Rococo shapes with Oriental motifs, Classical shapes with Medieval designs and Art ...

  4. Catawba Valley Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Catawba Valley Pottery describes alkaline glazed stoneware made in the Catawba River Valley of Western North Carolina from the early 19th century, as well as certain contemporary pottery made in the region utilizing traditional methods and forms. The earliest Catawba Valley pottery was earthenware made by the Catawba people. [1]

  5. Coalport porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Plate from the Harewood House botanical dessert service, probably 1830s-1840s. Coalport, Shropshire, England was a centre of porcelain and pottery production between about 1795 ("inaccurately" claimed as 1750 by the company) [1] and 1926, with the Coalport porcelain brand continuing to be used up to the present.

  6. Music history of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Verdi was the composer of the Italian Risorgimento, the movement to unify Italy in the 19th century. Later in the century is also the time of the early career of Giacomo Puccini, perhaps the greatest composer of pure melody in the history of Italian music. Frontispiece from the score of Cavalleria rusticana, a masterpiece of Italian Verismo ...

  7. Staffordshire Potteries - Wikipedia

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    Hundreds of companies produced all kinds of pottery, from tablewares and decorative pieces to industrial items. The main pottery types of earthenware, stoneware and porcelain were all made in large quantities, and the Staffordshire industry was a major innovator in developing new varieties of ceramic bodies such as bone china and jasperware, as well as pioneering transfer printing and other ...

  8. Edmé Samson - Wikipedia

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    During the 19th century, the collectors' market for antique fine china was considerable, and Samson’s firm reproduced ceramics in a breadth of styles including the faience and maiolica types of Italian pottery, Persian style dishes, Hispano-Moresque pottery (a blending of Islamic and European motifs, produced during the 13th to 15th centuries ...

  9. Ruskin Pottery - Wikipedia

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    The Ruskin Pottery was an English art pottery studio founded in 1898 by Edward R. Taylor, the first principal of both the Lincoln School of Art [1] and the Birmingham School of Art, to be run by his son, William Howson Taylor, formerly a student there.