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  2. Dedham Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Plates with crackling and bird designs, 1896-c. 1920. Dedham Pottery was an American art pottery company opened by the Robertson Family in Dedham, Massachusetts during the American arts & crafts movement that operated between 1896 and 1943.

  3. Meissen porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Meissen porcelain or Meissen china was the first European hard-paste porcelain. Early experiments were done in 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus . After his death that October, Johann Friedrich Böttger continued von Tschirnhaus's work and brought this type of porcelain to the market, financed by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and ...

  4. Ancient Egyptian pottery - Wikipedia

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    In addition to this, there were other objects frequently used in the household, like bread moulds, fireboxes, lamps and stands for vessels with round bases. Other types of pottery served ritual purposes. Sometimes water pipes were constructed from amphorae laid back-to-back, but actual ceramic water pipes were only introduced in the Roman period.

  5. Ceramic - Wikipedia

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    Silicon nitride rocket thruster. Left: Mounted in test stand. Right: Being tested with H 2 /O 2 propellants. 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 ...

  6. Chinese ceramics - Wikipedia

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    Many famous workers escaped from the overworked and underpaid environment in the imperial kilns to private ones. Private kilns were more involved in commercials than the imperial kilns did. In the late Ming period, several private kilns won great popularity among the literati, who were enthusiastic about the antique style porcelain.

  7. Fostoria Glass Company - Wikipedia

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    The company advertised as a manufacturer of pressed glassware, and specialties were candle stands, candelabras, and banquet lamps. [24] The first piece of glass pressed at the plant was a salt dip, pattern number 93. A popular early pattern called Cascade looked like a swirl and was used for candelabras and ink wells.