A SEVRES STYLE FRENCH ORMOLU CENTERPIECE
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Porcelain

Porcelain is a vitrified pottery with a white, fine-grained body that is usually translucent, as distinguished from earthenware, which is porous, opaque, and coarser. The distinction between porcelain and stoneware,…
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Dish with Constantine the Great
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Pottery

Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up pottery wares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made by a potter is…
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