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Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:00:16 +0000

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Arts and Crafts movement

Gordon Mitchell Forsyth

historicism

Lustreware

Pilkington’s Tile & Pottery Company

Pre-Raphaelite

Walter Crane

William Burton

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