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The Moravian Pottery & Tile Works (MPTW) is a history museum which is located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It is owned by the County of Bucks, and operated by TileWorks of Bucks County, a 501c3 non-profit organization. The museum was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, [1] and was later included in a ...
Zazzle Inc. URL. zazzle.com. Launched. 2005. Written in. C#/ASP.NET. [1] Zazzle is an American online marketplace that allows designers and customers to create their own products with independent manufacturers (clothing, posters, etc.), as well as use images from participating companies.
February 4, 1985. Fonthill, Mercer Museum and Moravian Pottery and Tile Works is a National Historic Landmark District located at Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It consists of three properties built by Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) in a distinctive application of the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement, which are also notable ...
Aspen Pflughoeft. May 7, 2024 at 10:53 AM. A collection of pots sat in a brick oven in northern France, but these weren’t school art projects. These 400-year-old artifacts were buried several ...
American art pottery. American art pottery (sometimes capitalized) refers to aesthetically distinctive hand-made ceramics in earthenware and stoneware from the period 1870-1950s. Ranging from tall vases to tiles, the work features original designs, simplified shapes, and experimental glazes and painting techniques.
Bernard Palissy ( French pronunciation: [bɛʁnaʁ palisi]; c. 1510 – c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rusticware", typically highly decorated large oval platters featuring small animals in ...
Colorado Springs, Colorado. , United States. Products. Art ware. Website. www.vanbriggle.com. Van Briggle Art Pottery was at the time of its demise the oldest continuously operating art pottery in the United States, having been established in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1901 by Artus and Anne Van Briggle. Artus had a significant impact on the ...
Red Wing pottery refers to American stoneware, pottery, or dinnerware items made by a company initially set up in Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1861 by German immigrant John Paul, [1] which changed its names several times until finally settling on Red Wing Potteries, Inc. in 1936. [1] The pottery factory that started in 1861 continues to the present ...
The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) is an art museum for ceramic art, located in Pomona, California. [1] Founded in 2003 as a nonprofit organization, the museum exhibits historic and contemporary ceramic artwork from both its permanent collection of 10,000 objects [2] and through temporary rotating exhibitions. [3] [4]
John Parker Glick (1 July 1938 – 6 April 2017) was an American ceramicist. [3] Though open to artistic experimentation, Glick was most influenced by the styles and aesthetics of Asian pottery—an inspiration that shows in his use of decorative patterns and glaze choices. [4] His experience working with ceramics led him to publish several ...