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baluster base border bottles bowl brass bronze carpets carved celadon centre ceramics chair Chinese chinoiseries clock colours copper covered decoration Delft designs dial dishes drawers Dutch dynasty early 19th century earthenware ébéniste enamel England English engraved Europe examples faience figures finial floral flowers France French furniture German gilding glass glaze gold green handle hard-paste porcelain Hausmaler Height Illustration Italian jewellery jugs K'ang Hsi Kakiemon lacquer late 18th century later London Louis XV mainly maiolica maker manufacture mark marquetry Meissen metal mid 18th century Ming dynasty miniature modelled motifs moulded mounted neo-classical ormolu ornament painted painter panels Paris pattern period pewter pieces pierced popular porcelain factory portraits pottery produced rococo scroll Sèvres shape Sheffield plate silver silver-gilt silversmith soft-paste porcelain sometimes spoon Staffordshire stem stoneware tableware tankards tapestry tin-glazed transfer-printed underglaze blue usually vases vessel ware watch Wedgwood