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Delft (dĕlft), city (1994 pop. 91,941), South Holland prov., W Netherlands. It has varied industries and is noted for its ceramics (china, tiles, and pottery) known as delftware. Founded in the 11th cent. and chartered in 1246, Delft was an important commercial center until superseded (17th cent.) by Rotterdam Rotterdam (rŏt`ərdăm', Dutch rôtərdäm`), city (1994 pop. 598,521), South Holland prov. ..... Click the link for more information. . The aspect of old Delft has changed little since Jan Vermeer Vermeer, Jan or Johannes ..... Click the link for more information. , who was born and lived there (17th cent.), painted his famous View of Delft. The city's notable buildings include a 13th-century Gothic church (Oude Kerk); the Gothic Nieuwe Kerk (15th cent.), with the tombs of William the Silent, who was assassinated in Delft, and the humanist Hugo Grotius Grotius, Hugo (grō`shəs), 1583–1645, Dutch jurist and humanist, whose Dutch name appears as Huigh de Groot. ..... Click the link for more information. , who was born there; and the 17th-century town hall. Delft has a technical university. DelftCity (pop., 2001 est.: 96,180), southwestern Netherlands. Founded in 1075 and chartered in 1246, it was a trade centre in the 16th–17th centuries and was famous for its delftware pottery. It was the birthplace of jurist Hugo Grotius (1583) and painter Jan Vermeer (1632). Landmarks include a Gothic church, a Renaissance-style town hall, and a 17th-century armory. Principal manufactures include ceramics. |
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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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