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The delft industry grew in Southwark, and by 1640 there were some forty potters working there, many of them Dutch immigrants.
Related scenes ornament archaeological fragments of two delft chamber pots and a small punch bowl from sites in New Castle, Delaware.
Each wall is painted in a different color, such as fuchsia, delft blue or bright orange.
Gerard ter Borch made headlines, while his rival in delft was painting maids with earrings.
The body is hand painted in polychrome enamels in the Bristol delft style and decorated with a figure of a Chinese gentleman beckoning to a distant flock of birds.
Delftware, also called delft, tin-glazed earthenware first made early in the 17th century at Delft, Holland.
The second type, covered with an opaque white tin glaze, is variously called tin-enameled, or tin-glazed, earthenware, majolica, faience, or delft.
It inspired the production of the tin-enameled wares that became known generically as delft because the industry became concentrated in the town of Delft from the second quarter of that century.
Literally in a backwater not far from The Hague, Delft reposes among the clefts made through the sleepy Dutch fields by the delta of the Rhine.
However, in 1614 the States General commissioned him to design the funerary monument for William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft.
No doubt Vermeer owed a particular debt to Delft, but it is the great dichotomies of Dutch art generally that nourished his genius.
A digital photo taken from Delft University claims to be the largest in the world at an impressive 2.5 gigapixels.
Tin-glazed earthenware was first manufactured in Delft, Holland, in the early seventeenth century.
We were not very impressed to find out that Delft is also famous for small white tiles decorated in blue paint.
He also made other types of ceramics, among them copies of Dutch Delft and Raku wares.
He later moved to Delft, where he was well known and became a syndic of the Guild of Saint Luke.
It is certainly true, with reference to paintings like The Little Street or View of Delft, that a topographical artist cannot change the buildings which are in front of him.
Delft university is responsible for providing the scientific know-how and for developing the strips to which the sensors are attached.
Delft is a town of 96 000 inhabitants, located in Southern Holland, between Rotterdam and Den Haag.
Furthermore Institutes such as the National Air and Space Laboratory, the Technical University Delft and the Polytechnic Haarlem.
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She longed for her mother, her friends in delft, and her quiet, cheerful home.
So he took out enough to pay for uncle George and me to go to delft.
Between Schiedam and delft I observed the windmills with great attention.
Disaster had attended the dash of the Sans-Pareil upon the delft.
Whether there were manufactories at other towns besides delft?
The same idea was carried out in the cups and saucers of thick homely delft, and in the cream-jug of similar kind.
The manufacture of delft ware was known to have greatly enriched Holland.
They are found in the market in short lengths and in such attractive colours as Delft blue, reseda green, pink, and catawba.
Rush-bottomed arm-chairs faced each other across the tiled hearth, and rows of Delft plates stood on shelves against the walls.
A contemporary resident of Delft was Johannes Vermeer, the son of an innkeeper and picture dealer.
At last, in a small room, Philip stopped before The Lacemaker of Vermeer van Delft.
The oil is exported to Holland, where it is sold as Delft salad oil.
But Boxtel, fearing that he might not arrive early enough, procured at Delft a box, lined all round with fresh moss, in which he packed the tulip.
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