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Porcelain Brand: CDE and Golden Shamrock

I bought a box made of porcelain, marked with cde and a golden shamrock. Can someone tell me which brand or manufacture that is or...

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What's a searching line?

The searching line or the seeking brush stroke is a drawing technique. In this technique, the procedure is as follows: you take a soft pencil and...

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Assign Signature to Artist

The auction house Bergmann from Erlangen (Germany) is providing a comprehensive database of signatures of different artists, which I would like to...

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Difference between Art and Design

I wonder what is actually the difference between the terms "art" and "design". Sometimes, both words seem to be used nearly interchangeable,...

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Mopsi99: The engraving could stand for "C. Deffner Esslingen". C. Deffner was a metal goods factory from Esslingen am Neckar from 1815 to 1969, and a lot of...

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Cleopatra: There was a quote that I find very appropriate: Design is art that makes itself useful. I do not know whose quote this is since Google cited...

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Mandy: This is an interesting but also difficult question at the same time. Spontaneous, I would say: Art exists and is created because of the art, for...

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