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Rockingham Pottery
The Rockingham Pottery was a 19th-century manufacturer of porcelain of international repute, supplying fine wares and ornamental pieces to royalty and the aristocracy in Britain and overseas, as well as manufacturing porcelain and earthenware items for ordinary use. It is best known for its finely decorated and, to modern tastes, somewhat gaudy rococo style of porcelain; indeed its name has almost come to classify such a style and as such pieces by other factories are regularly and incorrectly attributed to Rockingham. A famous piece is the (50 kg) ornate item known as the Rhinoceros Vase (of which two are known) made to demonstrate the skill of producing such a large and complex item as a single piece of fired porcelain.BBC A History of the World: Rhinoceros Vase, Rockingham, Swinton. Retrieved 27 March 2017 The fact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockingham Porcelain
Rockingham may refer to: People * Marquess of Rockingham, a British title of nobility whose holders included: ** Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782), Prime Minister of Great Britain Places Australia * City of Rockingham ** Rockingham, Western Australia ** East Rockingham, Western Australia ** Electoral district of Rockingham, a State Electoral District in Western Australia * Rockingham Bay, Queensland Canada * Rockingham, Nova Scotia ** École Rockingham School, an elementary school in Halifax, Nova Scotia * Rockingham, community in Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan Township, Ontario Ireland * Rockingham House, Boyle, a large country house in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland United Kingdom * Rockingham, Northamptonshire, England **Rockingham Castle **Rockingham Forest **Rockingham Motor Speedway United States * Rockingham, Georgia * Rockingham, Missouri * Rockingham, New Jersey, an unincorporated community ** Rockingham (house), an historic house in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds Pottery
Leeds Pottery, also known as Hartley Greens & Co., is a pottery manufacturer founded around 1756 in Hunslet, just south of Leeds, England. It is best known for its creamware, which is often called Leedsware; it was the "most important rival" in this highly popular ware of Wedgwood, who had invented the improved version used from the 1760s on. Many pieces include openwork, made either by piercing solid parts, or "basketwork", weaving thin strips of clay together. Several other types of ware were produced, mostly earthenware but with some stoneware. Wares The pottery produced catalogues of goods in 1783, 1785, 1786, 1794, and 1814; the pattern is somewhat indicative of the development of the business. There are other documents, and pattern books illustrating decoration, in the Leeds City Art Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. By 1790 the company employed 150 people. Leeds wares were lighter than those of most of their competitors, which gave them an advantage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Betty (teapot)
A Brown Betty is a type of teapot, round and with a manganese brown Ceramic glaze, glaze known as Rockingham Pottery, Rockingham glaze. The original teapots came from a red clay that was discovered in the Stoke-on-Trent area of Britain, in 1695. This clay resulted in a ceramic which seemed to retain heat better and so found use as the material for the teapot as early as the seventeenth century. These early pots were tall and shaped more like coffee pots. In the nineteenth century the pots began to take on the more rounded shape of the modern Brown Betty. The Rockingham Glaze was brushed on the pot and allowed to run down the sides, creating a streaky finish as it was fired. In the Victorian era, when tea was at its peak of popularity, tea brewed in the Brown Betty was considered excellent. This was attributed to the design of the pot which allowed the tea leaves more freedom to swirl around as the water was poured into the pot, releasing more flavour with less bitterness. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadogan Pot
Cadogan () is a name of Welsh language, Welsh origin and is a variant of the name Cadwgan (). It may refer to: People *Cadogan (surname) *Earl Cadogan, a peerage of Great Britain Places * Cadogan, Alberta, Canada * Cadogan Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States Chelsea, London * Cadogan Hall * Cadogan Place * Cadogan Hotel, famous for the arrest of playwright Oscar Wilde * Cadogan Square Other * Cadogen West, a victim in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle * Cadogan Estates, a property company * Sir Cadogan, a Magic in Harry Potter#Portraits, magical portrait in the ''Harry Potter'' series * Cadogan pot, a style of teapot produced by the Rockingham Pottery * Cadogan Guides, a series of travel books * Cadogan Chess, a publisher of chess books, now known as Everyman Chess {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthus (ornament)
The acanthus ( grc, ἄκανθος) is one of the most common plant forms to make foliage ornament and decoration, and even as the leaf distinguishing the heraldic coronet of a manorial lord from other coronets of royalty or nobility, which use strawberry leaves. Architecture In architecture, an ornament may be carved into stone or wood to resemble leaves from the Mediterranean species of the '' Acanthus'' genus of plants, which have deeply cut leaves with some similarity to those of the thistle and poppy. Both ''Acanthus mollis'' and the still more deeply cut ''Acanthus spinosus'' have been claimed as the main model, and particular examples of the motif may be closer in form to one or the other species; the leaves of both are, in any case, rather variable in form. The motif is found in decoration in nearly every medium. The relationship between acanthus ornament and the acanthus plant has been the subject of a long-standing controversy. Alois Riegl argued in his ''Stilfragen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backstamps
In philately a backstamp is a postmark on the back of a letter showing a post office or station through which the item passed in transit. The office of delivery may also backstamp a cover and this type of mark is known as a receiving mark. Backstamps are often applied as documentation of transit times, lengthy ones in the case of ocean crossings or short ones in the case of airmail flights. Registered mail is often backstamped in order to show the chain of custody. Mail that has had complex routings can have a dozen or more backstamps. Although such covers may look positively blackened with the overlapping marks, they are not common and so are highly valued by collectors of postal history Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems. The term is att ..., being described as "well travelled". Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockingham Tea Ware Cup And Saucer Later Style
Rockingham may refer to: People * Marquess of Rockingham, a British title of nobility whose holders included: ** Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782), Prime Minister of Great Britain Places Australia * City of Rockingham ** Rockingham, Western Australia ** East Rockingham, Western Australia ** Electoral district of Rockingham, a State Electoral District in Western Australia * Rockingham Bay, Queensland Canada * Rockingham, Nova Scotia ** École Rockingham School, an elementary school in Halifax, Nova Scotia * Rockingham, community in Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan Township, Ontario Ireland * Rockingham House, Boyle, a large country house in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland United Kingdom * Rockingham, Northamptonshire, England **Rockingham Castle **Rockingham Forest **Rockingham Motor Speedway United States * Rockingham, Georgia * Rockingham, Missouri * Rockingham, New Jersey, an unincorporated community ** Rockingham (house), an historic house in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockingham Tea Ware Pattern 714
Rockingham may refer to: People * Marquess of Rockingham, a British title of nobility whose holders included: ** Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782), Prime Minister of Great Britain Places Australia * City of Rockingham ** Rockingham, Western Australia ** East Rockingham, Western Australia ** Electoral district of Rockingham, a State Electoral District in Western Australia * Rockingham Bay, Queensland Canada * Rockingham, Nova Scotia ** École Rockingham School, an elementary school in Halifax, Nova Scotia * Rockingham, community in Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan Township, Ontario Ireland * Rockingham House, Boyle, a large country house in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland United Kingdom * Rockingham, Northamptonshire, England **Rockingham Castle **Rockingham Forest **Rockingham Motor Speedway United States * Rockingham, Georgia * Rockingham, Missouri * Rockingham, New Jersey, an unincorporated community ** Rockingham (house), an historic house in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockingham Kiln
The Rockingham, or Waterloo, Kiln in Swinton, South Yorkshire, England, is a pottery kiln dating from 1815. It formed part of the production centre for the Rockingham Pottery which, in the early 19th century, produced highly-decorative Rococo porcelain. The pottery failed in the mid-19th century, and the kiln is one of the few remaining elements of the Rockingham manufactory. It is a Grade II* listed building and forms part of the Rockingham Works Scheduled monument. The kiln is currently on the Historic England Heritage at Risk Register. History The original factory on the Swinton site produced simple earthenware pottery. The first recorded operator was a Joseph Flint, who in the 1740s was renting the site from the Marquess of Rockingham. A partnership with the Leeds Pottery failed and was dissolved by 1806. The subsequent owners, the Brameld family, built the Rockingham Kiln, and other structures on the site, in 1815. The date, the year of the Battle of Waterloo, led to the ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bankrupt
Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor. Bankrupt is not the only legal status that an insolvent person may have, and the term ''bankruptcy'' is therefore not a synonym for insolvency. Etymology The word ''bankruptcy'' is derived from Italian ''banca rotta'', literally meaning "broken bank". The term is often described as having originated in renaissance Italy, where there allegedly existed the tradition of smashing a banker's bench if he defaulted on payment so that the public could see that the banker, the owner of the bench, was no longer in a condition to continue his business, although some dismiss this as a false etymology. History In Ancient Greece, bankruptcy did not exist. If a man owed and he could not pay, he and his wife, children or servants were forced into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history. The original castle was built in the 11th century, after the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I (who reigned 1100–1135), it has been used by the reigning monarch and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. The castle's lavish early 19th-century state apartments were described by early 20th century art historian Hugh Roberts as "a superb and unrivalled sequence of rooms widely regarded as the finest and most complete expression of later Georgian taste".Hugh Roberts, ''Options Report for Windsor Castle'', cited Nicolson, p. 79. Inside the castle walls is the 15th-century St George's Chapel, considered by the historian John Martin Robinson to be "one of the supreme achievements of English Perpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Of The United Kingdom
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previous British monarch and is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. Victoria, a constitutional m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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