Erected in 1928, its interiors are opulent, with heavy silk curtains, porcelain antiques and dark-wood furniture.
Antonio Capelao, of London's Bicha Gallery, was betting on artist Anna Barlow's porcelain ice-cream sculptures.
Before deregulation in 1978, airlines competed almost entirely on service, thick steaks, white napkins, porcelain china.
She buys herself a piece of fine porcelain (usually from Royal Copenhagen) each year.
Even now Chinese porcelain pieces are uncovered during excavations in ancient trading cities like Zanzibar and Mombasa.
Experts in rare coins, porcelain and other arcane areas have been laid off or turned into consultants.
Porcelain is also used on the center wheel badges, the fuel filler cap, and the oil filler cap.
Materials include granite and porcelain tile, mahogany paneling on the walls and chandeliers in the two attached bathrooms.
Saucers as well as cups, damask tablecloth, porcelain plates, silverware, and one collapsible aluminum-and-canvas chair I carried everything without complaint.
His talent for porcelain flowers was soon put on full display at Slatkin's shop on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
With the metal elements complete, he mounts the porcelain flowers on the stem.
Some thought he used magnets, others said heavy oil or porcelain chips or a substance he found in beehives.
Company name refers to high-quality white porcelain that was exported from China to the West in the 18th century.
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Porcelain has now been distributed around several departments which, between them, manage only about a dozen sales a year.
If you rely on luck, however, Chinese porcelain is a fairly good bet.
The pool area is designed in the style of Victorian swimming baths, with porcelain tiles and a high ceiling.
And the little girl in the wheelchair shows up as the China Girl, a small porcelain doll that talks.
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She had black hair, blue eyes and porcelain skin, and she stared down students taller and older than she was.
There are Hawaiian leis in the colours of the German flag, life-size porcelain dogs and alarm clocks topped with pole-dancing dolls.
The BBC has learned that the installation of 100 million porcelain "sunflower seeds" was made in China using paint containing lead.
Only a generation ago, an auction house such as Sotheby's used to have a sale a week in its porcelain department.
Those that are vulnerable to breaking, such as porcelain statues, are placed in cases while bigger objects are placed behind a screen.
Kanevsky answered it, and, despite having no experience or credentials, persuaded Slatkin to let him create a melon-shape porcelain tureen on spec.
The band's early independent release, "Porcelain, " allowed the guys to get their guitar picks and vocals wet before hitting the big time.
An 18th Century jade bowl and a Dehua porcelain figurine were stolen during the raid at Durham University's Oriental Museum in April.
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The Chinese were the first people to make paper, porcelain and pyrotechnics.
That picture of Mr Gorbachev hides a porcelain bust of Vladimir Putin.
More importantly, they keep acquiring stuff that cannot be consumed and never rots or rusts: plastic toys, metal garden furniture, porcelain knick-knacks.
Mr Fan's will concentrate at first on porcelain artefacts from the period.
Some smashed porcelain rice bowls to symbolize the threats to their livelihood.
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