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DelftTown in South Holland province, the Netherlands, on the Schie Canal, 14 km/9 mi northwest of Rotterdam; population (1997) 94,000. It is known worldwide for its pottery and Delftware porcelain. Other industries include engineering, electronic equipment and cable production, and printing. There is a technical university, founded in 1863. The Dutch nationalist leader William the Silent was murdered here in 1584. It is the birthplace of the artists Jan Vermeer and Michiel van Miereveld.
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The same idea was carried out in the cups and saucers of thick homely delft, and in the cream-jug of similar kind. But Boxtel, fearing that he might not arrive early enough, procured at Delft a box, lined all round with fresh moss, in which he packed the tulip. heart, or a shilling for a pair of chromolithographic pictures or delft figures to place on his mantelboard, suffered greater privation for the sake of possessing a work of art than the great landlord or shareholder who paid a thousand pounds, which he was too rich to miss, for a portrait that, like Hogarth's Jack Sheppard, was only interesting to students of criminal physiognomy. |
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