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(b Leerdam, 11 Jan 1901; d Wassenaar, 19 Dec 1991).

Dutch glass designer. He worked at the royal glass factory in Leerdam (see Leerdam glass), where his father was head ...

Glass is said to be à la façon de Venise when it imitates the style of Venetian glass. Such glass was made from the late 16th century in the Netherlands, the Rhineland and by Giacomo...

Late 19th-century term for the heavy mock-Gothic furniture of the 1820s and 1830s, so-called from the name of Sir Walter Scott’s house; the style is now called ‘Scottish Baronial’, a term...

(b 1716; d 1788). Moroccan iron-founder who settled in England in 1762. He invented an innovative three-tier cast-iron stove decorated with extravagant reliefs. His name was so strongly...

(1677–1717).

The founder of the great Shropshire iron industry, using local supplies of coal and iron. He was born in Worcestershire of a quaker family, apprenticed in Birmingham,...

(b 1751; d 1811). American silversmith whose workshop in Philadelphia specialized in domestic silver in the Federal style.

(b 1654; d 1724). German Hausmaler, stained-glass artist, glass-enameller and glass-engraver. He painted religious scenes on Nuremberg faience, which before the establishment of the...

(b ’s Hertogenbosch, bapt 9 May 1596; d Antwerp, 31 Dec 1675).

Flemish glass-painter, draughtsman, painter and tapestry designer. Van Diepenbeeck trained in the ’s Hertogenbosch...

(b c. 1745; d 1774).

German faience painter. He worked at Rörstrand Ceramics Factory andMarieberg Factory, and then with his father-in-law Johann Buchwald at...

(b 1747; d 1823). Swiss watch-maker. In 1762 Breguet left his native Neuchâtel for Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life except for a period in the early 1790s when he fled the...