When I google YCTC fine china, I get eBay listings for Sango China.
I emailed a friend of mine whose business was translation and he is French, so I figured he would know what tâtonné meant in this case. Here is...
Could be British. I’m guessing 1950s when there was a penchant for making sets with different colours and pastels were often used. Seen more in...
Well, I think it’s for a breakfast or cabaret set. Alternatively, it could be for a dresser set. But the items that sat on it are gone. Glad...
Your translation of the French is very good. I think that “tâtonné” may mean more like over-worked or over-processed and the last bit more like...
Pretty new, I think.
Studio pottery. Can’t make out the signature. Late 20th c maybe
Studio pottery by someone named Ashby. Quite well done — 1980s or 90s, I think.
Goebel.
They look right to me. The maroon colour in the holder part is different from the brighter orange colour one often sees, but if a repro, then an...
Well, this is pretty recent manufacture...
Well, lovely glazes that’s are reminiscent of Ruskin as you say. I would think, especially as your mother remembered them, that a date of c. 1930...
I agree that it is a fairly modern decorator piece, likely southeast Asian manufacture and maybe the shape is what some call a temple jar.
Not Bitossi, but Italian seems a good guess. Doesn’t seem to have a Northern European style, although I would not be surprised if it was...
Looking at a Venema signature on Google images, it is different from OP’s piece.
Minton did produce some remarkable art pottery and there is a secessionist line to which yours looks similar. Early 20th c....
Well, I think a blimp would work with that early date. And it could be that the base was used for later toy production...
Not sure it’s true pate sur pate — there were other techniques such as Limoges enamelling (I think that was what it was called) — I think this is...
Not a find, but someone asked me to post some jade jewellery that I have on FB, so I thought I’d post them here for fun. It was my mother’s and I...
Studio pottery — VT or VJ. Cute!
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