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Dryden Historic District is a national historic district located at Dryden in Tompkins County, New York. The district consists of 44 properties encompassing the historic core of the village of Dryden. Except for three mid-19th-century commercial buildings, the district consists of residential structures pleasantly spaced along three lined streets.
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The Nantgarw China Works was a porcelain factory, later making other types of pottery, located in Nantgarw on the eastern bank of the Glamorganshire Canal, 8 miles (13 km) north of Cardiff in the River Taff valley, Glamorganshire, Wales. The factory made porcelain of very high quality, especially in the years from 1813–1814 and 1817–1820.
The body is white, translucent and has the texture of very-fine sugar, indicating that it was made using crushed and refined pottery stone instead of pottery stone and kaolin. The glaze and the body of the bowl would have been fired together, in a saggar in a large wood-burning dragon kiln , typical of southern kilns in the period.
The region was part of the Central New York Military Tract, land given as compensation to soldiers of the American Revolution. Robert Harpur, a Clerk in the office of the New York State Surveyor General who named numerous New York townships in 1790 based on his own classical studies, named Dryden for John Dryden [4] (1631–1700), the English poet and a translator of the classics (including ...
Hard-paste porcelain was invented in China, and it was also used in Japanese porcelain.Most of the finest quality porcelain wares are made of this material. The earliest European porcelains were produced at the Meissen factory in the early 18th century; they were formed from a paste composed of kaolin and alabaster and fired at temperatures up to 1,400 °C (2,552 °F) in a wood-fired kiln ...
Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery [2] that has normally been fired below 1,200 °C (2,190 °F). [3] Basic earthenware, often called terracotta , absorbs liquids such as water. However, earthenware can be made impervious to liquids by coating it with a ceramic glaze , and such a process is used for the great majority of ...
The pottery wheel is an important component to create arts and craft products. [1] The techniques of jiggering and jolleying can be seen as extensions of the potter's wheel: in jiggering, a shaped tool is slowly brought down onto the plastic clay body that has been placed on top of the rotating plaster mould. The jigger tool shapes one face ...