Ceramics and Porcelain
Willow Pattern China and How to Date Your Plates
You have a blue and white plate with a bridge, three figures, a pagoda and two birds, and you want to know whether it is 200...
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Marks, makers and how condition affects what a piece fetches, from Staffordshire figures to transfer-printed earthenware.
Ceramics and Porcelain
You have a blue and white plate with a bridge, three figures, a pagoda and two birds, and you want to know whether it is 200...
Ceramics and Porcelain
You have turned over a heavy white platter at a house sale, found a printed mark with a crown and the words "Ironstone China",...
Ceramics and Porcelain
You turn a teacup over at a fair, find no mark at all, and the dealer says "fine porcelain" while the label says "bone china."...
Ceramics and Porcelain
You turn over a blue and white plate at an estate sale and the pattern has bled into a soft haze, as if someone breathed on it...
Ceramics and Porcelain
At a country sale last year I watched two oyster plates go under the hammer twenty minutes apart.
Ceramics and Porcelain
A Worcester sauce boat sold at a country sale I attended was catalogued as "fine condition" and fetched nearly three times its...