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101: About the Antique Makers and Designers
Do you any antique designers and the cabinet-makers who had made some of the antique pieces that we could see even today. Most of the information about these designers or makers were most of the time very difficult to find. We will know some of these famous designers and makers and something about their works.
102: Chinese Pottery and Porcelain - Great Progress in Style and Design
Ching-te-chen, the southwestern of Nankin, became a centre of manufacturing porcelain in the fourteenth during the Ming dynasty. These products of porcelain spread the fame of China throughout the civilized world exporting them to western countries. Let us have a look at the details of the Chinese pottery and porcelain history.
103: Things You should Know about Inlay Decoration
Carving was the earliest ways of decorating the woods. This carving was done almost in all types of woods. It gave a new looks and a generated a new interest for furniture. And then you have inlay type of decoration, an alternative of carving.
104: Discovering Different Kinds of Watches
Pocket watch was first made in 1520. Then it keeps on improving with time and we have a lot of choices. They come in all shape and sizes and different designs and decorated with different types of ornaments. One of the most important thing in a watch is it movements accuracy and the materials and their durability.
105: Types of Stones and Their Characteristics
There are some jade and stones that we know very less about them. The natives of New Zealand sometimes use these stones for making figures of human and even articles like axe-head. These stones had never failed to surprise and delight the craftsmen and collectors alike.
106: The Best Soapstone and Quartz of China and Japan
Stones like the soapstone and quartz are rarely known but they have significant importance in countries like China in their religious life besides their other uses in articles and figure. Here you will know more of them in more details.
107: Iron and Steel in Different Countries
The progress in iron and steel gave new ideas of firearms where Samuel Colt the inventor of automatic revolver during the nineteenth century played an important part.
108: The History of Brass Metals
Making of articles and figures from the brass metal probably dates back to the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Some of the things that were made with brass are candlesticks, dishes of various sizes, chandeliers
109: Porcelain in Scandinavia and Russia
The Scandinavian and Russian porcelain were made with the soft paste in the initial stages and a different type of paste was also introduced for a short time and then the hard paste was used to make figures and vases like cups and mustard pots.
110: How Porcelain Spread in France
The Royal gave permission to starts the National manufactory of porcelain in France in 1745 and make porcelain in the Saxon style. This is a painted and gilded with human figures, etc.
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