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| #3382762 in Books | Shire | 2008-03-04 | 2008-03-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.12 x5.87l,.18 | File type: PDF | 32 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Disappointingly minimal|By L. Digby|While this little pamphlet (33 pages) has some basic information about Parian Ware, the main reason I purchased it was that the cover image is exactly the same piece of Parian that I have. I wanted to know more detail about this piece, especially attribution to a specific manufacturer. I assumed, wrongly, that the featured cover photo would|About the Author|Dennis Barker, journalist, author and broadcaster, started studying and collecting Parian ware in the 1960s, when he became interested in portrait busts of writers, most of which were in that plain matt white porcelain. His travels enabled him t
In the mid nineteenth century, a number of porcelain manufacturers were trying to develop a middle-class substitute for the white marble portrait busts that decorated the homes of the rich. Parian porcelain, so called after the marble from the Greek island of Paros, was the result. It became a status symbol in its time and is still highly regarded. Parian portrait busts and other depictions of personalities and events provide a mantelpiece history of the Victorian and Ed...
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