Royal Copenhagen have launched two new bowls with the iconic Fluted Mega decoration – in blue and black. The decorative Blue Fluted pattern is just as topical today as when it first saw the light of day in 1775.
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Earliest Surviving Manuscript for a Novel by Jane Austen
Sotheby’s are to auction, as part of the English Literature and History Sale on 14th July 2011, the historic autograph manuscript of Jane Austen’s novel ‘The Watsons’ – the only major Austen manuscript remaining in private hands and the most important Jane Austen item to come to the market in over 20 years.
A Rather Weary Doll – Robert Tonner’s Ellowyne Wilde
Ellowyne Wilde is a doll with attitude, a world-weary doll with an unusual take on fashion. There is something about Ellowyne’s languid, lazy, rather bored approach to life which makes me smile. And many of her costumes are stunning – though what else would you expect when they are designed […]
Ferdinand Preiss the ‘Master’ of ivory sculpture
Considered by many to be the ‘Master’ of ivory sculpture, Ferdinand Preiss was a skilled designer, modeller and carver, who worked throughout the Art Deco period.
Pot-Lids – one of the earliest forms of visual advertising
One thing that often appeals to us collectors is a sense of order.
Whitefriars Blown Soda
The forms were practical and classical, the lines were clean, and the colours were vibrant.
Moorcroft Design Team Rachel Bishop
Rachel Bishop holds the distinction of being only the fourth head of the Moorcroft design department over a period that extends almost 100 years, ever since William Moorcroft set up his own pottery after departing from the Burslem firm of James Macintyre and Company in 1913. Rachel can to a […]
Gianni Versace – Fashionable and Collectable
When it comes to elite 20th Century designer offerings one of the most celebrated of them all has to be the late Prince of Fashion – Gianni Versace. His flamboyant, original and controversial creations were vibrant and risqué yet adored by all, including celebrities and royalty. Gianni’s ability to revolutionise […]
Antique Bisque Dolls
Antique Bisque Dolls – Years ago, the dream of most doll collectors was to be able to afford an antique doll – a doll made from bisque china with glass eyes and a jointed wood or composition body. We used to sigh over pictures in magazines and drool at doll […]
Danish Ceramics from Bjørn Wiinblad
Bjørn Wiinblad – Instantly recognisable, his style is very modern and personal with almost naively drawn, but immensely charming, characters, usually with happy round faces
