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William De Morgan
William De Morgan was an English ceramicist and tile designer of the Arts and Crafts movement, and a close colleague of William Morris, who later became a successful novelist.
William Morris
William Morris (1834–1896), English designer, writer, and socialist, led the Arts and Crafts movement, founded Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861, relaunched as Morris & Co. 1875) and the Kelmscott Press (1891), famed for 'useful or beautiful' design ideals.
Wine Cup of Jahangir
A wine cup of Jahangir is a drinking vessel made for the Mughal emperor, mostly carved from nephrite jade and inscribed with his titles, dates, and verses.
Winter Egg
The Winter Egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg made in 1913, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II as an Easter gift for his mother, Maria Feodorovna.
Wucai
Wucai (五彩, "five colors") is a Chinese porcelain decoration in which bright enamels are painted over the glaze and refired, flourishing in the Ming and Kangxi periods.
Yang Pengnian
Yang Pengnian (杨彭年) was a Chinese Yixing zisha potter of the Qing dynasty, best known for making the Mansheng pots designed by the scholar Chen Hongshou.
Yangcai
Yangcai (洋彩, "foreign colors") is Chinese porcelain painted in opaque overglaze enamels of European origin, the famille rose palette, with body and decoration both made at the Jingdezhen imperial kilns.
Yaozhou ware
Yaozhou ware (耀州窑) is a Chinese celadon produced from the Tang dynasty at kilns in Tongchuan, Shaanxi, reaching its peak in the Northern Song (960–1127).
Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl
The Yohen Tenmoku tea bowl (曜変天目茶碗) is a black-glazed Jian kiln tea bowl from 12th to 13th century China, marked by blue-lustered spots; three survive, all in Japan.
Yuan blue and white
Yuan blue and white (元代青花瓷) is underglaze cobalt-decorated porcelain produced chiefly at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), when Chinese blue-and-white reached technical maturity.
Zellige
Zellige (زليج), also spelled zellij or zillij, is the hand-cut glazed ceramic tile mosaic of Morocco and al-Andalus, cut with a hammer into precise geometric star patterns.
Zhu Kexin
Zhu Kexin (朱可心, born Zhu Kaichang, 1904 to 1986) was a Chinese Yixing zisha pottery master best known for naturalistic flower-vessel teapots called "Kexin flower ware".
Zsolnay
Zsolnay is a Hungarian ceramics manufacturer founded in 1853 in Pécs by Miklós Zsolnay, known for its iridescent eosin glaze and for pyrogranite, which clad Art Nouveau buildings.