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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"tableware"”.
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Industrial Design: Tableware
The goal of my graduate thesis is to design a dinner service set suitable for mass manufacture. The purpose of completing an academic study of dinnerware as an industrial designer is to gain a mastery of a product used everyday in and out of the home. With such a rich history in ceramics, it is …
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Crafting identities : tableware for the Meiji Emperor
… the Meiji era, this study examines the ceramic tableware of the imperial court and the documentary sources that record its commissioning and use. Historically neglected, the study of Meiji-era ceramics as it has developed over recent years is dominated by export-focused narratives. By way of …
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Buried before the flood? A regional study of Romano-British tableware
Past discussions of Romano-British pewter tableware have tended to view the vessels in representative terms, as evidence either for the ‘Romanisation’ of the south of Britain, or as signifiers of elite identity. This thesis builds a more holistic understanding of how these vessels may have been …
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Buried before the flood? A regional study of Romano-British tableware
Past discussions of Romano-British pewter tableware have tended to view the vessels in representative terms, as evidence either for the ‘Romanisation’ of the south of Britain, or as signifiers of elite identity. This thesis builds a more holistic understanding of how these vessels may have been …
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Salience, qualities and narratives in the making of contemporary British hand-thrown tableware
… British workshop practices of making commercial tableware by hand on the potter’s wheel. It is a practice-led study of making processes situated within research on contemporary pottery and, more generally, on craft and design. Ethnographic Fieldwork was conducted in three professional workshops: …
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Designing 21st Century Standard Ware: The Cultural Heritage of Leach and the Potential Applications of Digital Technologies
… in the design and production of hand-made tableware at the Leach Pottery. The methodology for the research establishes an approach grounded in my previous experience as a maker that is informed by an open, experimental, emergent, and responsive framework based on Naturalistic Inquiry. A …
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Felix convivum : platters and transformations of dining behavior in the Roman world
… Most people in the Roman world used ceramic tableware, despite its absence in iconographical and in literary sources. This observation leads to many questions about how the iconographical, literary sources and archaeological material reflect actual dining practices during the Roman period. In …
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On the Edge
… attention to placement and composition. I made tableware forms such as plates, cups, and mugs, setting them up into two metaphorical categories: “Before Serving” and “After Serving.” In the introduction, I will talk about the main motifs present in my work and the background of my work which …
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On the Edge
… attention to placement and composition. I made tableware forms such as plates, cups, and mugs, setting them up into two metaphorical categories: “Before Serving” and “After Serving.” In the introduction, I will talk about the main motifs present in my work and the background of my work which …
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The effect of sintering temperature on potassium feldspar addition into claytan porcelain
… and feldspar. Its diverse applications include tableware, whiteware and insulators. This study was performed to investigate the effects of different sintering temperature on Claytan porcelain with the addition of 0wt%, 2wt%, 4wt%, 6wt%, 8wt% and 10wt% of potassium feldspar. The study was done …
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Business strategy and the environment in a traditional manufacturing sector
… studied is the ceramics industry (including tableware & ornamental-ware, sanitary ware & tiles, bricks, industrial & advanced ceramics and refractories) in the UK and France. Unlike the automotive, oil, chemical, steel or metal processing sectors, this industry is one of the few industrial …
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Sheltering colonialism: the archaeology of a house, household, and white Creole masculinity at the 18th-century Little Bay Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies
… pistol. Punch bowls, glassware, tea and tableware reflect refined British cultural sensibilities, but as first-person travelogues recount, such goods were redeployed in distinctive colonial form with Creole open-door sociability and shared domesticity with household enslaved. Taken …
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Patients as stakeholders: a mixed-methods evaluation to understand patient experiences of care at a public-private partnership hospital network in Lesotho
… mealtimes or not being told to bring their own tableware. Qualitative findings also suggest respondents experienced long wait times, with 32% of survey respondents reporting having waited two or more hours to see a doctor. RECOMMENDATIONS: To improve patient-centered care, we recommend …
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There is this island: Social dynamics and connectivity in Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus
… an island-wide network of exchange involving tableware, liquids and rare metal. By the end of the period, this network was flourishing, including the regular movement of people, leading to the blurring of some regional attributes and the emergence of new ones. The study of the social dynamics …
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Re-making collectives. A study of changes in the living environments of mainland Greece, 2500-2100 BCE
… (1) the built environment, (2) the ceramic tableware and (3) grounding deposits (i.e., deposits resulting from the burial of buildings, other material fragments, and of bodies underground). These three domains form the analytical chapters of this research. This thesis proposes that social …
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Las cerámicas barnizadas "tipo Kuass". Tipología, producción y distribución
… forged whit more or less precision, but with a tableware that covers, to a large extent, the dinner service, illumination and sumptuary functions. It also revealed that, contrary to what was thought, these are not isolated elements, considered luxurious by the local populations. These forms have …
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Assessment of clayey raw material suitability for ceramic production in Northern Peloponnese : an archaeometric approach
… of firing temperatures was chosen in the case of tableware. The extensive number of the small groups and loners suggested the household production. We deduced that Helike potters used the same clayey raw material source for about half of the studies samples, but the query raised was about the …