Sentence examples for imperial factory from inspiring English sources

The imperial factory there was rebuilt and reorganized to keep the court supplied with the new porcelain.

China's imperial factory continued to thrive under the following Qing emperor, Yongzheng (1723-1735), and his successor, Qianlong (1735-1795).

It was made in Henan at an imperial factory that was apparently in production for about 20 years, starting in 1107.

A great revival of art industries took place under the patronage of the emperor Kangxi (1661 1722), who in 1680 established a series of imperial factories.

FROM its early years the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) was famous in the West for the magnificent and inimitable blue-and-white porcelainimitable blue-and-whiteactorinimitable blue-and-white

What was left of the imperial factories was burnt in 1869, and, though carved red lacquer was made after that date, the industry had already ceased to have artistic importance.

In order to protect the manufacture of silk products, Justinian granted a monopoly to the imperial factories in 541.

What they liked were two vases made in 1836 at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St . Petersburg

Taking work at the former imperial porcelain factory in Leningrad, she realized through exposure to its archives of 18th-century tableware that "the clean lines of modern design could be successfully combined with sensuous, classic shapes," as she later wrote.

But the show reminds us that it was the chief modeler of the imperial porcelain factory who produced a subtle form of portraiture that to this day defines the way we expect Russians to look.

It wasn't until 1744, 14 years after German alchemists cracked the formula for making porcelain, that Peter's daughter, Empress Elizabeth, opened the Imperial Porcelain Factory and began cranking out porcelain pieces painted gold, red and blue -- colors designed to mask the early flaws.