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1. Name the British pottery firm founded in 1759 by a man named Josiah. The company became famous for their beautiful Jasper Ware and Queens Ware pieces.
2. What is Capodimonte?
3. Renowned Australian potter John Campbell purchased his first pottery factory in Tasmania in 1881. The company produced pipes, bricks, domestic and artware pottery. Which of the following features most accurately describes Campbell's decorative wares?
4. In 1815 Englishman John Doulton used his life savings to form a pottery company, which he named Doulton. By 1901 King Edward VII had granted the Doulton factory a special warrant. This meant that the company could use a crown in their logo and could also change their name. What was the name of the new company?
5. At some stage, most people are likely to have owned a drinking mug in the shape of a portly man wearing a three-cornered hat. Also known as a Fillpot, what is the more common name of this mug?
6. In 1940, Australian Eric Lowe set up a factory in NSW and called it Diana Pottery. He named it after Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales when she married Prince Charles in 1981.
7. Renowned for her bright & bold hand-painted designs, this female potter was the most prolific and important ceramics designer of the Art Deco period. Pieces from her early ranges, such as "Cubist" and "Bizarre", now command many thousands of dollars at auction. What is the name of this unconventional potter?
8. This instantly recognisable pattern is classic Oriental style chinaware. Decorated with dark blue on a white background and including weeping trees, pagodas and a crooked fence, what is the name of this famous pattern?
9. Bendigo Pottery is Australia's oldest working pottery.
10. The work of acclaimed Australian potter Guy Martin Boyd has been shown worldwide in places such as London, Montreal, Chicago and New York. Boyd wasn't one to shirk public controversy, and was a steadfast crusader & supporter for the reversal of a murder conviction that occurred in Australia in 1980. The murder trial was shown throughout the world and was later made into a Hollywood movie. To whom was Boyd lending his unswerving support?
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