Ceramics and Porcelain
Telling Hand Painted Porcelain From a Transfer Print
Two plates can look nearly identical across a fair table and carry wildly different values, and the difference is often how the...
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Marks, makers and how condition affects what a piece fetches, from Staffordshire figures to transfer-printed earthenware.
Ceramics and Porcelain
Two plates can look nearly identical across a fair table and carry wildly different values, and the difference is often how the...
Ceramics and Porcelain
A glaze is the first thing anyone notices about a piece of old pottery, and also one of the last things new collectors learn to...
Ceramics and Porcelain
I have sold more jardinieres than I have sold any other single category of ceramic, and the reason is straightforward: they are...
Ceramics and Porcelain
I bought my first pair of Staffordshire flatback figures in 1998, at an auction in Leek, for 85 pounds.
Ceramics and Porcelain
Three categories of English earthenware sit next to each other on the shelves of every good antique ceramics dealer, and they...
Ceramics and Porcelain
Hand painted china holds a special appeal because each piece carries the direct work of a decorator's hand.