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Exterior of the company's Visitor Center in 2008. Stoneware & Co., which was previously known by various other names including the J. B. Taylor Company and Louisville Stoneware until sometime after its sale in July 2007, is a stoneware-producing company located in the Highlands section of Louisville, Kentucky.
Haviland & Co. is a manufacturer of Limoges porcelain in France, begun in the 1840s by the American Haviland family, importers of porcelain to the US, which has always been the main market. Its finest period is generally accepted to be the late 19th century, when it tracked wider artistic styles in innovative designs in porcelain, as well as ...
The Haviland House, in Harrison County, Kentucky near Cynthiana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1] It is a four-bay one-and-a-half-story hall-parlor plan dry stone house, built in the early 1800s. It is said to have been built by a Frenchman who built this and two others in the area for his children. [2]
Limoges porcelain is hard-paste porcelain produced by factories in and around the city of Limoges, France, beginning in the late 18th century, by any manufacturer.By about 1830, Limoges, which was close to the areas where suitable clay was found, had replaced Paris as the main centre for private porcelain factories, although the state-owned Sèvres porcelain near Paris remained dominant at the ...
Hadley Pottery was exhibited by the American Craftsmen's Educational Council in 1947, and at the Ceramic National Exhibit at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts. [14] In 1952, Mary Alice Hadley received an award from the Museum of Modern Art's Good Design program [15] and her winning design, "Brown Dot" (or "Hot Brown Fleck"), was exhibited in New York and Chicago.
John Haviland (December 15, 1792 – March 28, 1852) was an English-born American architect who was a major figure in American Neo-Classical architecture, and one of the most notable architects working from Philadelphia during the nineteenth century.
The Hindman Historic District is a historic district along Main St. and Kentucky Route 160 in Hindman, Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. [1] It is an irregularly-shaped district. It mainly includes two-story houses and commercial buildings built from 1903 to 1960.
Johann Friedrich Böttger (also Böttcher or Böttiger; 4 February 1682 – 13 March 1719) was a German alchemist.Böttger was born in Schleiz and died in Dresden.He is normally credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708, [1] but it has also been claimed that English manufacturers [2] or Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus [3 ...