In addition to the serenity and fresh air, the island is dotted with shops that sell distinctive Mon pottery, a pleasing ochre-coloured pottery that has its roots in present-day Myanmar.
Scientists from Pennsylvania's University Museum believe 7, 000-year-old pottery jars discovered in what is now Georgia were used to store and age wine -- a true vintage.
This former German region is renowned for its salt-glazed pottery, and the hand-made ceramics still made by family businesses should not be missed at the market today.
U5: Earthenware pottery-making skills were included in 2010 in the Kgatleng district inventory of intangible cultural heritage that is managed by Phuthadikoba Museum and the Department of Arts and Culture of the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture.
Women of the Bakgatla ba Kgafela community of Botswana practice earthenware pottery-making skills using clay soil, weathered sandstone and other materials to make pots of different forms, designs and styles that relate to the traditional rituals and beliefs of the community.
The museum collection--featuring bronzes, pottery, porcelain, paintings and calligraphy--is so vast that only a small proportion can be displayed at one time, while the remainder is stored in vaults within the hills behind the museum.
It is a process that a team of workers at Middleport pottery in Stoke-on-Trent will have to repeat thousands of times.
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Part of a street next to Stoke-on-Trent's former Spode pottery works has been shut so some brickwork which is leaning "dangerously" can be removed.
The museum will display rotating highlights from the university's 10, 000-piece collection of African art, stretching from 16th-century Congolese pottery to contemporary works by William Kentridge, South Africa's most famous working artist and a Wits graduate.
Pottery Barn parent Williams-Sonoma has yet to break ground on its low-budget concept, Elm Street.
The Prince of Wales has visited the last working Victorian pottery factory in Stoke-on-Trent, which his charity is helping to refurbish.
The mobile gift cards are currently available at the Gap and its spin-off chains Banana Republic and Old Navy, as well as Williams-Sonoma and sister chains Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids and West Elm.
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All the pieces of avocado-glazed pottery come from the nearby Snake Kiln, whose traditions date back to the Ming dynasty.
Like Rikyu before him, Koetsu worked with a family of potters whose name came to stand for a whole class of rough, low-fired pottery: raku ware.
Leather bookbindings, pigments for paints and majolica (white-glazed pottery) all came from the East, although the Venetians never succeeded in imitating the perfect ruby glaze of Iznik pottery.
In a Tokyo store, she was attracted to a set of paper plates that look like off-kilter pottery, so she bought them to get the manufacturer's name off the package.
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In the modern world, we make most of our pots out of metal and plastic, but we still use plain-old pottery for everyday items, from coffee mugs to dinner plates.
In addition to offering canal-side camping and houseboat rentals, John and Paula host pontoon excursions to the lakes, and have a wide range of activities on their property, including pottery, painting and radio-controlled car racing.
They have welcomed plans for a ceramic academy in Stoke-on-Trent "in principle" but urged one of the big pottery firms in the area to help to teach traditional pottery skills.
They are making "tea cups to cake stands to everything, 450 pieces in a beautiful raku, " a Japanese-style of pottery, Ms. Foppiani says.
After that, I read everything about England I could get my hands on: geography, geology, architecture, folklore, fiction, place-names, pottery, poetry and plants.
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So, he pulled his trailer into the parking lot of a pottery store and touted his partially-melted, soft ice cream as a brand new type of dessert.
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In a small pottery studio in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, the steady hand of Peter Graves, 64, adds the finishing details to a delicately-painted picture of a ship inside an enamel box.
The MFA has an almost unrivalled collection of Mayan painted pottery from the Classical period (250-900AD).
Restaurants buy from local farms, the Black Isle and Cromarty breweries and the Cromarty pottery, making for a distinctive, high-quality offer for which they can charge premium prices.
Work at church number one - St Andrew's in Holcombe - has recently ended with 18th Century skeletons, artefacts and medieval pottery being discovered.
It also does not hurt that they heated the chorizo appetizer tableside on a flaming, pig-shaped casserole of traditional Portuguese pottery.
Sotheby's said the bowl is a "remarkable and exceptionally beautiful example of Song pottery, celebrated for its thin potting, fine near-white body and ivory coloured glaze".
The list can seem endless because the governments in this region are on aggressive privatization plans, which include health spas, pottery manufacturers and, in Poland, even an animal-breeding station.
Williams-Sonoma operates its namesake stores and Pottery Barn.
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