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1708
 
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The secret of true porcelain is at last discovered in the west, at Dresden, by Johann Friedrich Böttger       
c. 1720
 
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The lighter rococo style, beginning in France, becomes an extension of the baroque       
1759
 
    
Staffordshire potter Josiah Wedgwood sets up a factory of his own in his home town of Burslem       
Josiah Wedgwood after William Hackwood, 1759
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1775
 
   
Francisco de Goya begins a series of designs for tapestries to be made in Spain's Royal Tapestry Factory      
Goya A Picnic (detail) c.1790
National Gallery, London

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1807
 
    
English collector Thomas Hope publishes his Greek and Egyptian designs in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration       
Thomas Hope, by Beechey, c.1799
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1900
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife exhibit together at the Sezession show in Vienna        
1901
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow        
1903
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow for Miss Cranston        
1909
 
   
Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts      
Stoneware box, Bernard Leach
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
c. 1909
 
     
René Lalique, originally known for his jewellery, sets up his own glass-making factory at Combes-la-Ville