Edward Lycett, Designer for Faience Company, Brooklyn

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Edward Lycett was like Charles Cartlidge a china designer from Staffordhsire in England.
He tried to set up a commercially viable porcelain factory in Greenpoint in the 1880’s I believe in the building that now houses the Red Star on Greenpoint Avenue.

He made beautiful pieces of China that were recently shown in the Brooklyn Museum.

Here is a link to a times article on him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/arts/design/edward-lycett-designer-for-faience-company-brooklyn.html?adxnnl=1&ref=belleboyd&adxnnlx=1397833987-QFEKpLR7NWQYU9Bd+PKtBQ

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I am the author of Greenpoint's Forgotten Past and King of Greenpoint. I also wrote two Williamsburg histories, Williamsburg Transformed and The Rise and Fall of the Sugar King, a history of the Havemeyer sugar empire. My latest book is the Irish in New York, profiling Irish Americans who have shaped the history and culture of the Empire State

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