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Japan
17th century
American
1890–1905
Japan
17th–18th century
ca. 3500 B.C.
possibly French
17th century
Ferdinand Plitzner
ca. 1715–20
French
1770–80
French
17th century
American or European
1700–1942
Scandinavian
ca. 1900
Charles Wheatstone
1831–37
Chinese
18th–19th century
1760–1883
probably Ethiopian
19th century
French, Paris
18th century (?)
Italian, possibly Naples
1840–60
Joao Vieira da Silva
18th century
Balinese
16th–19th century
American or European
ca. 1855
possibly French
early 19th century
Spanish
17th century
Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt
ca. 1685
Jean-Paul Guerin
1800–1883
House of Balenciaga
spring/summer 2017
Thomas Tompion
before 1682
Thomas Whieldon factory, Stoke-on-Trent, Fenton Vivian, Staffordshire
ca. 1760
Lange de Bourbon
ca. 1770
John Mitzell
1697
probably Italian, Naples
early 18th century
Chinese, for the European Market
mid-18th century
Hara Yōyūsai
19th century
Edward Prior
19th century
Dupuy
1910–20
British
ca. 1780
American
1800–1943
Jean-Baptiste Voboam
1697
John D'Angelico
ca. 1925
1775–1800
Matthew Boulton
probably ca. 1770
Probably Austrian
ca. 1730–40