I bought this small 11cm [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] aesthetic period bone China Japonisme vase this week. It is unmarked. I...
I bought this tea bowl yesterday. It is Meissen and the pattern is known as Tischenmuster (little table). The crossed swords have a letter in...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This little vase turned up in a mixed lot at auction today. It has an impressed mark of a triangle. The words around...
Every week I end up with boxes full of stuff from mixed auction lots as there is one piece that I really want in the lot. Most of it ends up back...
I can't provide a photo of the signatures on these quirky heads but there is an incised mark possibly ARV. I spotted them for sale today and I was...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] For someone who doesn’t like Capodimonte much I have been buying a lot lately. This figure turned up in a mixed box at auction...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The nearest I have found to this small majolica plate is one by Rubelles and another by Villeroy & Boch Schramberg but I don’t...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Our local auction house tends to put together very large mixed lots and most weeks I end up with a pile of unwanted...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This pretty little vase is signed but I don’t recognise the signature. Can anybody help?
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] A friend asked me to help with this unusual pot. He thinks it is a Posset pot but it doesn’t look like any posset pots I have...
I just bought six cups and saucers in this pattern. The Bute shape of the cups dates to c1805 and is very similar to Coalport examples in...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] These pieces of Capodimonte and Dresden porcelain turned up at my local auction today and although I don't...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I love all things old and couldn’t resist this 9” diameter plate or shallow dish. I’m reasonably okay with...
[ATTACH] I bought these the other day and they just arrived. What a fabulous buy. I am so pleased with them. I know exactly what they are and if...
A week or two ago there was a lengthy thread which concluded that Quirkygirl's porcelain plates were by Nantgarw. Having collected ceramics since...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] After drawing a blank with identifying the makers of the two barbotine pot holders last...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I buy mixed lots of ceramics at auction most weeks and often there are bits of glass with them. This week I...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The eBay pieces with felt on the base have now arrived. I removed the felts to find a brown biscuit base with...
I bought this pair of Cache Pots on eBay just now. I got the feeling that they might be early twentieth century French pieces which are quite...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This small pilgrim’s flask was a speculative eBay buy. It’s made from a soft faience body. After lots of...
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