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unusual facts about Tableware


James Pascoe Group

As of 2013, Farmers major offerings include Women's Fashion, Men's Fashion and Mercery, Lingerie, Serviced Comestics, Health & Beauty, Accessories, Children's, Kitchen and Tabletop, Small Appliances, Manchester, and Furniture.


Arques, Pas-de-Calais

It has been the headquarters of Arc International, the largest manufacturer of glassware in the world, since its inception in the 19th century.

Brody, Żary County

From 1740 it was a possession of the Saxon statesman Heinrich von Brühl, who had an extended Baroque palace built, where he received Elector Frederick Augustus II of Wettin and kept his famous Meissen Schwanenservice tableware of more than 2.000 pieces designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler.

Burmese glass

Burmese glass found favor with Queen Victoria, and from 1886, the British company of Thomas Webb & Sons was licensed to produce their own version known as Queen's Burmeseware, which was used for tableware and decorative glass, often with painted decoration.

Carrigaline Pottery

Ng Eng Teng, the noted Singaporean Sculpture, worked in the mid-1960s at the Pottery as a designer of tiles, hollow-ware and tableware.

Ceramics

Ceramic art, art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery

Edith Haisman

Titanic's hold contained tableware, furnishings, and 1,000 rolls of bed linen for the intended hotel.

Historical Museum of the Palatinate

Over 1,000 pieces of silver, bronze, brass and iron (weapons, tools, coins, tableware, kitchenware etc., weighing more than 700 kg, sunk in the waters of the Rhine 1,700 years ago, the largest Roman-era trove of metals found in Europe, dug up in a gravel quarry near Neupotz, 30 km south of Speyer.

History of Pittsburgh's South Side

The location was so nationally recognized for production, Presidents Andrew Jackson and James Monroe ordered glass tableware for the White House from companies operating in the area.

Mary Barbara Bailey

Sister Mary Barbara Bailey, C.R.L., (28 June 1910 – 4 May 2003) was an English Roman Catholic canoness regular who illustrated the original Bunnykins tableware series which was manufactured by the Royal Doulton factory.

Rhodesiana

Since 1980, Zimbabwean embassies and high commissions around the world have at various times raised money by selling off obsolete Rhodesian passports, documents, tableware, furniture and various curios.

Stig Lindberg

One of Sweden's most important postwar designers, Lindberg created whimsical studio ceramics and graceful tableware lines during a long career with the Gustavsberg pottery factory.


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