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  • Buddhist Studies

    Buddhist Studies

    Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term Buddhology was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the

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  • Goût Rothschild

    Goût Rothschild

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  • Giuseppe Tucci

    Giuseppe Tucci

    Giuseppe Tucci (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈtuttʃi] ; 5 June 1894 – 5 April 1984) was an Italian orientalist, Indologist and scholar of East Asian studies, specializing in Tibetan culture an

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  • Abraham Blooteling

    Abraham Blooteling

    Abraham Blooteling (or Bloteling) (1634–1690) was a Dutch designer and engraver.Catherine of Braganza, mezzotint, 1672, after Peter Lely.LifeHe was born at Amsterdam. From the style of his etchings

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  • Lead glazes

    Lead glazes

    Lead-glazed earthenware is one of the traditional types of earthenware with a ceramic glaze, which coats the ceramic bisque body and renders it impervious to liquids, as terracotta itself is not. P

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  • Huis Honselaarsdijk

    Huis Honselaarsdijk

    Huis Honselaarsdijk is a former palace and country residence of the Dutch Stadtholders and princes of Orange which lies about 2.6 km (2 mi) southwest of the border of The Hague, Netherlands. It was

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  • Victorian majolica

    Victorian majolica

    Victorian majolica properly refers to two types of majolica made in the second half of the 19th century in Europe and America.Monumental Minton peacock, circa 1870, coloured lead glazes. Naturalist

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  • André Mollet

    André Mollet

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  • Mintons Ltd

    Mintons Ltd

    Mintons was a major company in Staffordshire pottery, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, work

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  • Claude Mollet

    Claude Mollet

    Claude Mollet (ca. 1564 – shortly before 1649), premier jardinier du Roy — first gardener to three French kings, Henry IV, Louis XIII and the young Louis XIV — was a member of the Mollet dynasty of

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