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    Inside the gas chimney you will discover earthenware logs, fiber gas logs or glass or precious stone components and a burner that creates a shining characteristic gas-fueled fire. These new gas chimneys are not the old gas chimneys. The amount and nature of the fire has been drastically enhanced and

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    sections including Paleolithic and Neolithic. The Neolithic beings about 7,000 or 8,000 BCE and ends with the Bronze Age." (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2009) Yanghao pottery is reported to be ""¦.characterized by the use of reddish earthenware painted with black decorative designs. In some instances the designs resemble mask shapes with fish-like protrusions, in others, the designs are swirling patterns with a tooth-like pattern." (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.,2009) Approximately

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    Indus Valley Civilization: In the region of South Asia, Indus Valley civilization is acknowledged as the oldest civilization which is situated in the region of India's western drift and Indus River (Hirst, 2017). This civilization performed central government and delivered well developed cities and towns along with compositions and controlled food productions. This civilization is different from those of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and hence was not overwhelmed by intense figures of religion (Green,

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    sea causes isolation from the other countries II. Japan before Buddhism A. Jomon Period (ca. 10,500-300 B.C.) i. Pottery before Farming 1. Jomons were hunter-gatherers, earliest distinctive culture 2. Jomon-decorations marking many earthenware vessels 3. Pit dwellings allowed for settlement, a break from nomadic lifestyle 4. Ceramic technology developed before agriculture 5. Ceramic shards oldest

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    eating his chocolate making reference that the rich were not wanting and had most all of their needs met (108). In these times the rich were indeed rich and the poor followed suit. “Men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women’s heads” (32). These two examples of consumption compare by being complete opposites. The Aristocracy feels they are above others and live a high life without any care for those the common folk and their ways

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    Cultural Change everyone goes thru it, when you move, or when you encounter a different culture like In Chinua Achebe’s novel things fall apart. Nwoye sense of identity was disputed when the foreigners brought their western ideas into the Ibo culture. Nwoye started as a lazy follower of the Ibo religion. But the cultural onslaught from the British foreigners and the Ibo people affected them in a positive manner to the point that nwoye left his family to join the British colonists. The causes for

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    Slave Living Conditions

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    Some slaves used a hammock instead, but only a few would have been able to afford such a luxury, because these had to be bought from Indians and cost about 25 guilders -a fortune for the average slave. Most bondsmen also owned a couple of iron and earthenware pots, calabashes and a chest to store their Sunday finery in. Some fortunate plantation slaves lived in comfortable cabins depending on how much money they make and what their owner will give them or let them build. some slaves could enjoy a proper

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    Vyse's The Sculptor

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    The Sculptor No longer a student, but reluctant to return to the Potteries, and what Vyse described as its stifling artistic environment. He would stay in London and become a fine-art sculptor. This was a brave decision by Vyse. The position of a modeller was open for Vyse at the Doulton Art Studio, Burslem. Emphatic in his rejection, for him modelling in Burslem was out of the question. Vyse liked to boast that he had once studied with his friend Septimus Bennett, the younger brother of author Arnold

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    of the business. The Handicrafts Development Corporation is acquiring and showcasing craftsmanship items through its 18 Kairali emporia spread all over India. The Artisans Development Corporation is offering help to artisans in the exchange of earthenware, copper, bronze, gold smithy, carpentry and so on. Kerala State Handicrafts Apex Cooperative Society (SURABHI)

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    Who Is Leslie Harradine?

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    Arthur Leslie Harradine (1887-1965) It is a challenge to comprehend when numerous books on ceramics and their makers abound that the life and work of Leslie Harradine, a much vaunted Doulton figure modeller, has been overlooked. Harradine’s grandparents, Thomas Harradine (1779-nd) of Deptford, and Mary Harradine (1813-nd) of Greenwich. In 1871, their abode is recorded the district of St George, Hanover Square, London. Their children were Sophia M Harradine (1850-nd) and Charles Percy Harradine (1856-1943)

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