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  2. Tableware - Wikipedia

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    Table laid for six at the Royal Castle, Warsaw, (18th–19th century fashion) Tableware items are the dishware and utensils used for setting a table, serving food, and dining. The term includes cutlery, glassware, serving dishes, serving utensils, and other items used for practical as well as decorative purposes.

  3. Plate (dishware) - Wikipedia

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    Tea saucer is a small plate with an indentation for a cup and a diameter of 6 inches (15 cm). A demi-tasse saucer, or coffee saucer is 4.5 inches (11 cm) in diameter. Soup plate has a diameter of 9 inches (23 cm), [7] a much deeper well and wide rim ("lip"). If the lip is lacking, as often seen in contemporary tableware, it is a "soup bowl".

  4. Charger (table setting) - Wikipedia

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    The word "charger" originated around 1275–1325 from the Middle English "chargeour". Formerly, a charger signified either a large platter or a large, shallow dish for liquids. [2] They are usually larger than most common dinner plates. Since they are not used for food, charger plates can be found in a variety of materials, from traditional ...

  5. Table setting - Wikipedia

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    Table setting. v. t. e. Table setting (laying a table) or place setting refers to the way to set a table with tableware —such as eating utensils and for serving and eating. The arrangement for a single diner is called a place setting. It is also the layout in which the utensils and ornaments are positioned. The practice of dictating the ...

  6. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    A list of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs, including decorative ornaments, patterns, auspicious symbols, and iconography elements, used in Chinese visual arts, sorted in different theme categories. Chinese symbols and motifs are more than decorative designs as they also hold symbolic but hidden meanings which have been used and ...

  7. Decorator crab - Wikipedia

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    The graceful decorator crab, Oregonia gracilis. Decorator crabs are crabs of several different species, belonging to the superfamily Majoidea (not all of which are decorators), that use materials from their environment to hide from, or ward off, predators. They decorate themselves by sticking mostly sedentary animals and plants to their bodies ...

  8. Fishkeeping - Wikipedia

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    Fishkeepers are often known as "aquarists" since many of them are not solely interested in keeping fish. The hobby can be broadly divided into three specific disciplines, depending on the type of water the fish originate from: freshwater, brackish, and marine (also called saltwater) fishkeeping.

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  10. Fish carving - Wikipedia

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    Fish sculpture, fish decoys, fish carvings and fish trophies are the names given to a style of painted wood carving practiced by various artisans. The works are kept as decorations and collectible as folk art . British fish carvers include John B. Russell (Scottish), John and Dhuie Tully, P.B. Malloch and the Hardy Brothers.

  11. Minoan art - Wikipedia

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    1350–1100 BC. LMIIIB. Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals come from approximately 2300 to 1400 BC. It forms part of the wider grouping of Aegean art, and in later periods came for a time to have a dominant influence over Cycladic ...