Jet test: get yourself a bit of unglazed porcelain, like the inside of a loo lid, and very very gently smear the item on it. A sttreak means jet...
The ashtray is Mandruzzato, sommerso faceted. Nice. Orange vase is fairly recent Chinese. Blue goblet was made in Empoli. Swan probably Japan. Can...
Oh, and saying that the person who made this would not be in a pottery isn't correct either. This is machine pressed into a mould with industrial...
Staffordshire pottery makers didn't use "raw clay" for manufacture. The clay was always cleaned and processed in some way. Heck, even the Romans...
On the Gothic thing. We did that early. As in Strawberry Hill house, which was finished in the 1770s. I was looking at images of Prideaux Place in...
That's often called gypsy set in the UK. Might be Georgian paste.
Water will cause glass sickness. The only real remedy is serious internal polishing or muriatic acid.
Very popular these were. SylvaC made them, Beswick, all sorts. This looks 70s to me with that colour. Oh, and Dartmouth did them.
Meh, this Brit has never heard flake glass as a term.
Clay isn't right for BMP. I think that just says ENGLAND.
Bet that stopper wobbles.
Bit bemused by the "clay" references. All pottery is made from clay. Do you mean earthenware, or what? There's plenty of late 19th and into the...
Still made and used, these. A real skill The dress looks Rajasthan.
Screams 1980s, that.
Also made in France and the UK. Could be 30s, could be 50s.
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