While students swarmed the halls at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology one Friday late last November, a dozen or so outsiders crowded into a small glass shop in the basement of Building 4. They ...

We like to think of technology as always being forward looking. It’s supposed to be about nanoparticles and the Cloud, not steam engines and the telephone exchange. But every now and again the past ...

OUR writers are not in search of an original passion of the human breast to introduce to the public for the first time. All that was done so long since that the precise date is not a matter of ...

This porcelain vase is in “Of Cottages and Castles: The Art of California Faience” at the Crocker Art Museum. courtesy Crocker Art Museum Crocker Art Museum One of the longest-lived and most prolific ...

Decorative arts, even contemporary ones, can be overlooked as museumgoers make a beeline for masterpieces. Seemingly everyday objects—dinnerware, vases, specialty containers, bowls and platters—get ...

Faience Manufacturing Company is their decoration. And you can see they've got the chrysanthemums, or whatever these little flowers are, and butterflies, and all of this is typical of the aesthetic ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Beginning in England in the early ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Beginning in England in the early ...

View Vance Avon Faience Company’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.