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Book Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol Being a History of the Manufacture of the True Porcelain

Download or read book Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol Being a History of the Manufacture of the True Porcelain written by Richard Champion and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Book Bibliography of Clays and the Ceramic Arts

Download or read book Bibliography of Clays and the Ceramic Arts written by John Casper Branner and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marks and Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain

Download or read book Marks and Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain written by William Chaffers and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The White Road

Download or read book The White Road written by Edmund de Waal and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted. Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with the Amber Eyes. In The White Road, bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "white gold." A potter who has been working with porcelain for more than forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and coveted-and that would help him understand the clay's mysterious allure. From his studio in London, he starts by travelling to three "white hills"-sites in China, Germany and England that are key to porcelain's creation. But his search eventually takes him around the globe and reveals more than a history of cups and figurines; rather, he is forced to confront some of the darkest moments of twentieth-century history. Part memoir, part history, part detective story, The White Road chronicles a global obsession with alchemy, art, wealth, craft, and purity. In a sweeping yet intimate style that recalls The Hare with the Amber Eyes, de Waal gives us a singular understanding of "the spectrum of porcelain" and the mapping of desire.

Book Catalogue of the Herbert Allen Collection of English Porcelain

Download or read book Catalogue of the Herbert Allen Collection of English Porcelain written by Victoria and Albert Museum. Ceramics Department and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Mediaeval   Later Antiquities Contained in the Mayer Museum  Including the Mather Collection of Miniatures and Medals Relating to the Bonaparte Family

Download or read book Catalogue of Mediaeval Later Antiquities Contained in the Mayer Museum Including the Mather Collection of Miniatures and Medals Relating to the Bonaparte Family written by Charles Tindal Gatty and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Book The First Century of English Porcelain

Download or read book The First Century of English Porcelain written by W. Moore Binns and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Of National Biography

Download or read book Dictionary Of National Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old English Glasses

Download or read book Old English Glasses written by Albert Hartshorne and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Welsh Armorial Porcelain

Download or read book Welsh Armorial Porcelain written by Howell G. M. Edwards and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armorial porcelains comprised the output of most European ceramics factories in the 18th and 19th Centuries in response to the large quantity of armorial porcelain services that were being imported from China bearing the coats of arms and crests of aristocratic families. Whereas these armorial services have been identified and covered for most porcelain manufactories the information relevant to their production by the two relatively short-lived Nantgarw and Swansea China Works has not been addressed as a theme until now. As an integral component of the holistic forensic appraisal of porcelain, a functional and decorative artwork manifestly part of our cultural heritage and its ongoing preservation , the recording and identification of such artefacts is material for the future establishment of a database of factory production . The Nantgarw and Swansea factories only operated for a limited period in the second decade of the 19th Century and their porcelains were much appreciated for their high quality and desirability by Georgian households. Today, examples are to be found in many museums and ceramics collections and continue to excite the interest of specialists and the general public . This text provides the first comprehensive assessment of armorial porcelains from these two factories and the methodology and procedure for the identification of unknown armorial bearings and crests is illustrated; individual bearings are discussed in detail and existing incorrect assignments in the literature are re-appraised. The difficulties in attribution of armorial heraldic achievements that are only minimally depicted are considered and directions for further studies using historical documentation are invoked. This book therefore fills a currently existing gap in the ceramics literature of the 19th Century.

Book Slavery Obscured

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  • Author : Madge Dresser
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-10-06
  • ISBN : 1474291708
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Slavery Obscured written by Madge Dresser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery Obscured aims to assess how the slave trade affected the social life and cultural outlook of the citizens of a major English city, and contends that its impact was more profound than has previously been acknowledged. Based on original research in archives in Britain and America, this title builds on scholarship in the economic history of the slave trade to ask questions about the way slave-derived wealth underpinned the city of Bristol's urban development and its growing gentility. How much did Bristol's Georgian renaissance owe to such wealth? Who were the major players and beneficiaries of the African and West Indian trades? How, in an ever-changing historical environment, were enslaved Africans represented in the city's press, theatre and political discourse? What do previously unexplored religious, legal and private records tell us about the black presence in Bristol or about the attitudes of white seamen, colonists and merchants towards slavery and race? What role did white women and artisans play in Bristol's anti-slavery movement? Combining a historical and anthropological approach, Slavery Obscured, seeks to shed new light on the contradictory and complex history of an English slaving port and to prompt new ways of looking at British national identity, race and history.