BEGINNERS GUIDE TO BUYING ANTIQUE Porcelain Bronze ON EBAY: Primarily, when buying an antique on eBay you should have done enough research to know what it is you are buying. Ebay can be a minefield for the...
I have a few tips on purchasing antique pottery , porcelain and ceramics to help new collectors. First of all I would say collect a style of ceramics which you like, do not just follow a name or trend. I you...
Real Fairings are small Victorian china ornaments,usually captioned,making a social,political,or humorous comment on English life from about 1850 to 1914.The First World War stopped the trade,because they...
Lustre-ware was without doubt the most affordable form of decoration on all manner of crockery throughout most of the 19th century. Therefore there's a lot of it about and not too much of it marked. So....how...
Gaudy Welsh is a rather elusive title for a body of ceramics that spanned near a century of production from the1820's of Hilditch to the 1920's of Charles Allerton. True,Welsh factories made their...
I sell china - it's all breakable, some is old and irreplaceable so a great deal of care is needed to get the item to the buyer in the same condition as it leaves me. Because many postal services won't unsure...
'Sunderland lustre' has become the accepted name for all pottery decorated with pink lustre irrespective of its place of manufacture.During manufacture the applied gold leaf changed to pink. The pink areas...
Our website chinafairings.org contains all the pictures and details you will need to learn about China Fairings. Fairings first made an appearance in the middle of the nineteenth century as prizes to be won...
German Porcelain pate sur pate urns Pâte sur pâte is the technique in the creation of porcelain whereby the white porcelain is overlaid on the blue surface of the bowl. Ie you can feel the delicate relief of...
German Meissen porcelain comport German Meissen (porcelain), hard-paste porcelain was made at a factory established in 1710 at Meissen, near Dresden, in Saxony, east-central Germany. (The ware was once known...