Adam, Robert (1728-1792). Scots architect and interior designer, textile, furniture and silverware. Developed neo-classical style, with a great influence in Britain and Europe in the late 18 century.
Barlow, Family. English family of ceramic decorators. Hannah (1851-1916) and her sister Florence worked in the Doulton company. They colored some series of stoneware with opaque colors [...]
In the Meissen factory were produced figures from the beginning, although the best pieces were made by Johann Joachim Kändler, chief and designer of the factory from 1733 to 1775. In 1830 with the neo-rococo at its boom the factory began to reproduce the molds and shapes using some of the original designs. The [...]
Antique coffee pots have been unfashionable since the late 1960s, but for their attractiveness, coffee pots should be worthy of greater appreciation and value. The pieces of the later 18th century, are often decorated with embossing. The topics of embossing are usually of: flowers, cartouches and scrolls. A Georgian coffee pot can cost over [...]
Antique marrow scoops were produced from the 17th century and were used to scoop out bone marrow. These scoops have always the same size with a small and a large end to cater for all kind of bone. Marrow scoops are plain in design but sometimes have a crest on the wider end.
Most pieces today [...]
Some italian families like Cipriani and Pugi produced signed and unsigned decorative pieces around 1900. Busts and figures in classical or contemporary pose show this period of art.
Be careful with restorations, especially on hands and long necks. These pieces are solid, and abrasions are normal signs of age, but always look the areas of different [...]
The first Dying Gladiator (Gaul) was seen in the Ludovici Collection in 1623, today the original is in the Capitoline Museum. It is age, size and casting quality that are needed to see before purchase this sculpture in over $1500, also a greenish patina will add appeal. If it has a Collas stamp this [...]
Cornishware is one of the most popular of kitchenware. Jars are wrote with atypical titles such as Brown Sugar or Granulated Sugar. The price for these antique porcelains is around $100 and $300 and more for uncommon samples.
The Cornishware storage jars are an excellent investment, and usable as decorative kitchenware.
Cornishware Flour jar (8 in [...]
The antique Gaudy Welsh porcelain was produced as an inexpensive form of tableware for the working classes. During the 19 th century was made by factories in north east England, the Midlands and south west England, but with a minor extent to Wales; so never intended to be classed together under one generic term. [...]
By the 1880s Henry Doulton was employing more than 200 staff, with designers such as Hannah Barlow and George Tinworth producing highly individual work.
In 1877, Henry took over an antique Burslem manufacturer of domestic earthenwares which, under his leadership, established a reputation for high-quality tableware and ornaments.
The factory of the antique Worcester porcelain was founded in 1751 by Dr Wall Davis and others and continues at Worcester to the present day. Early Worcester porcelain was the most successful in England and consisted mainly of tea and coffe services and dinner ware. Transfer-printing was introduced by the mid-1750s, at first in [...]
