Capodimonte porcelain Capodimonte porcelain Capodimonte porcelain (sometimes "Capo di Monte") is porcelain created by the Capodimonte porcelain manufactory ("Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte"), which operated in Naples, Italy, between 1743 and 1759. Capodimonte is the most outstanding factory for early Italian porcelain, the Doccia porcelain of Florence being the other main Italian factory. Capodimonte is most famous for its moulded figurines. The porcelain of Capodimonte, and later Naples, was a "superb" translucent soft-paste, "more beautiful" but much harder to fire than the German hard-pastes, or "a particularly clear, warm, white, covered with a mildly lustrous glaze". The Capodimonte mark was a fleur-de-lys in
Sea urchins of the Gulf of California major habitat locations. The scientific names, biogeographic distributions, world distributions, and depth ranges found in the list above are from the Sea of Cortez Database. A study from 2005 adds the following species : "Lytechinus anamesus", "Toxopneustes roseus", "Cassidulus pacificus", "Mellita kanakoffi", "Encope wetmorei", "Brissus latecarinatus", "Metalia spatagus", "Brisaster townsendi", "Moira clotho". Sea urchins of the Gulf of California The sea urchins of the Gulf of California live between the coasts of the Baja California Peninsula to the west and mainland state of Sonora, Mexico to the east. The northern boundary is the lateral band of land with the remains