Category Archives: Porcelain

Guy’s bowls and sporting women

Posted on April 28, 2022 by maryannadair

Australian potter and figurative sculptor Guy Martin à Beckett Boyd was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria, on 12 June, 1923. Guy was a member of the Boyd family artistic dynasty which includes painters, sculptors, architects and other arts professionals, commencing with … Continue reading →

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A tureen to help store your emotional cabbage?

Posted on January 10, 2018 by maryannadair

Above: Cabbage Tureen by Paul-Antoine Hannong, from Hannong Factory Strasbourg, Alsace, France (ca 1754-1762) – Faience earthenware (tin-glazed), 21.2 × 34.6 × 33.1 cm (Collection of National Gallery of Victoria, International). Faience (tin-glazed earthenware) and porcelain were the principal products of the … Continue reading →

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Viva Vivat Bohmen

Posted on September 15, 2017 by maryannadair

Above: Vivat Bohmen cup and saucer, supposedly the oldest surviving Bohemian porcelain from Klášterec nad Ohří (1794). The cup measures 5.6 cm high. Klášterec nad Ohří, was a Bohemian factory founded in 1793, by Mikuláš (Johann Nicolaus) Weber with support from … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Ceramics, DecorativeArts, Porcelain | Tagged Czech porcelain, European porcelain, Klasterec Castle, Museum of Porcelain, Vivat Bohmen | Leave a comment

Try Your Luck and Maybe Spend a Buck at the Fryerstown Antique Fair

Posted on January 26, 2017 by maryannadair

Fryerstown Antique Fair will celebrate its 42nd anniversary in 2017. It is held on the surrounding days of the Australia Day holiday on January 25th each year. The popular annual event has grown from strength to strength each year and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bone China, Ceramics, CigaretteCards, Collectibles, Crystal, Glass, Hard Paste Porcelain, Marbles, Paperweights, Perfume Bottles, Porcelain, Postcards, Sculpture, Snowdomes, Soft paste Porcelain, Stained Glass, Stamps, SwapCards, Tea Towels | Tagged Fryerstown Antique Fair, Fryerstown Antique Market | Leave a comment

Joseph Coteau’s work is as regular as clock-work

Posted on December 28, 2015 by maryannadair

Joseph Coteau (1740-1801) was a well-respected French enameller who worked on skeleton clocks during the revolutionary period from 1789-1799. Image depicted (left) shows a gilt and enamelled bronze (chased) marble skeleton clock; (430x250x140cm) Foundation Napoleon Paris. (Donation Lapeyre inv.809). Although Joseph Coteau … Continue reading →

Posted in Artists A-Z, DecorativeArts, Furniture & Furnishings, Gallery Art, Porcelain | Tagged Antique clocks, Joseph Coteau, Sèvres pottery, skeleton clocks | 1 Comment

There’s nothing bleek about Belleek

Posted on July 8, 2015 by maryannadair

Belleek Pottery is a porcelain company that began trading in 1884 as the Belleek Pottery Works Company Ltd in Belleek, County Fermanagh, in Northern Ireland. The factory produces porcelain that is characterised by its thin and slightly iridescent surface and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bone China, DecorativeArts, Hard Paste Porcelain, Porcelain | Tagged #China, aynsley China, Belleek, Belleek Collectors International Society, Donegal Parian, Dundlak, Galway Crystal, Irish porcelain, Neptune, Tridacna | Leave a comment

Bring a plate

Posted on December 13, 2014 by maryannadair

A tip for young players – “Bring a plate” is a term which is often used to party invitees. It’s a form of entertaining where costs and provisions are shared by all invited guests. You bring a plate of savoury … Continue reading →

Posted in Ceramics, Collectibles, Gallery Art, Porcelain | Tagged #Porcelain, #Pottery, Cauldon pottery | Leave a comment

The storm in a teacup which brewed in Portmeirion

Posted on May 28, 2014 by maryannadair

Portmeirion as a town, is a tourist village located in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth, on the estuary of the River Dwyryd, south-east of Porthmadog, in Gwynedd, North Wales. It was once the film set for the 1966-67 British cult surreal … Continue reading →

Posted in Ceramics, Porcelain | Tagged #China, #Pottery, Botanic Gardens, Patrick McGoohan, Portmeirion, Portmeirion pottery, The Prisoner | Leave a comment

Whatever happened to China – Made in Japan?

Posted on April 9, 2013 by maryannadair

Satsuma ware or, as written in Wikipedia: (薩摩焼 satsuma-yaki), is also sometimes referred to as “Satsuma porcelain.” It is a type of Japanese earthenware pottery which originated in the late 16th century, during the Azuchi-Momoyama period, and is still produced … Continue reading →

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Let’s Sèvres the world

Posted on March 20, 2013 by maryannadair

Sèvres porcelain- The manufacture de nationale de Sèvres Frit porcelain tendre factory is situated at Sèvres, France. Founded in 1738, Sèvres has historically been both a royal, then an imperial factory manufacturing fine china and porcelain. The facility is now … Continue reading →

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Don’t have a cow man

Posted on December 7, 2012 by maryannadair

Bone China is a type of soft-paste porcelain that is composed of bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. It has been defined as ware with a translucent body containing a minimum of 30% of phosphate derived from animal bone and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bone China, Porcelain | Tagged #China, #Porcelain, bone china, fine bone china, tea cups, Windsor fine bone china | Leave a comment

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Category Archives: Porcelain

Guy’s bowls and sporting women

A tureen to help store your emotional cabbage?

Viva Vivat Bohmen

Try Your Luck and Maybe Spend a Buck at the Fryerstown Antique Fair

Joseph Coteau’s work is as regular as clock-work

There’s nothing bleek about Belleek

Bring a plate

The storm in a teacup which brewed in Portmeirion

Whatever happened to China – Made in Japan?

Let’s Sèvres the world

Don’t have a cow man

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