Sevres Porcelain – One for Porcelain Collectors to Look Out For
From 1738 and the Marquis Orry de Fulvy, to Napoleon's reign and still to the present day Sevres Porcelain has been among the finest porcelain in the World. Serious porcelain collectors should always be on the look out for any Sevres pieces they can add to their collection.
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Rene Lalique Glass
Rene Lalique Artist and Designer. Life and career.
The life of Rene Lalique and his artistic career covered the three most significant movements in the field of decorative arts - Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
Who was the famous glassmaker Rene Lalique?
Rene Lalique was born Rene Jules Lalique in Ay, France on April 6, 1860. His mother quickly recognised her son's artistic talent. At the age of sixteenth, she steered ...
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Selling Antiques Guide
The Selling Antiques Guide - How you can profit by selling antiques
Buying antiques to re-sell can be very profitable but it does come with a large element of risk.
By doing some careful planning, reading and studying of our guide you will minimise that risk and you might find yourself on a path to making a living by doing what you love.
Sourcing Antiques
The beginning of every business starts with ensuring that you have a product that is worthy of a profit margin which will make you ...
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Paris Porcelain Vases by Bourdoir and Bloch
Paris Porcelain is to France what Dresden Porcelain is to Germany. Porcelain by a variety of makers from a region rather than one maker. In this case Porcelain de Paris is also as good if not sometimes better than Dresden, Meissen or Sevres porcelain and is certainly a collectible to look out for
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Sevres Porcelain Gallery
A quick look at a few good examples of Sevres porcelain in our Sevres Porcelain Gallery.
The Wallace Collection holds the finest museum collection of Antique Sevres Porcelain in the world.
The other great Sevres' porcelain collections are housed at ...
1. The Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle
2. The Rothschild Collection at Waddeson Manor
Both collections were mostly put together in the nineteenth century.
Largely as a result of the French Revolution when so ...
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Sevres Porcelain
Sevres Porcelain - The company history, its products, its double L mark and the main periods.
Sevres porcelain history starts in 1738 when the Marquis Orry de Fulvy, brother of the Minister of Finance, obtained from the French king Louis XV a licence to manufacture porcelain in the Saxon manner
At that time the brothers Dubois, who were arcanists that fled from Chantilly, had already experimented to produce porcelain at the Chateau de Vincennes.
Together with Gravant, they succeeded in ...
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Royal Vienna Porcelain
Collecting Royal Vienna porcelain and Vienna Portrait Plates and Wall Plaques.
The Royal Vienna Porcelain factory was founded in 1717 by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier.
Du Paquier, on studying father d'Entrecolles' letters and after conducting experiments hoped, with the help of Christoph Conrad Hunger, to reveal the secrets of porcelain production.
His attempts were unsuccessful until 1718, when he secured the services of the arcanist Samuel Stölzel, a previous employee of the ...
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Chelsea Porcelain Factory
The history of the Chelsea Porcelain company, its products and its anchor mark periods.
The Chelsea porcelain factory was founded in 1743 by two Frenchmen; Charles Gouyn a goldsmith and Nicholas Sprimont a silversmith.
The Chelsea porcelain manufactory was the first important porcelain manufactory in England
Its early soft-paste porcelain products were aimed at the aristocratic market.
The first director Nicholas Sprimont was a silversmith by trade, but few documents survive to put ...
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Antique Minton China
Collecting Antique Minton China and the history of the 200 year old Minton Company.
Thomas Minton founded his factory in 1793 in Stoke-upon-Trent, England.
He was famous for Minton ware, a cream-coloured and blue-printed earthenware as well as majolica, Minton bone china and Parian porcelain.
Throughout its history Minton has often led the way in adapting fashions to the field of ceramics, resulting in a huge range of styles.
Minton was just behind Spode with its production of Minton ...
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Art Deco Gallery
Our Art Deco Gallery featuring examples of the diversity and quality of items produced during the art deco period.
A gallery of the ever popular art deco style. The architectural and decorative-arts style popular from 1910 to 1940, that is characterised by highly stylised and geometric forms.
Art Deco themes were often classical motifs reduced to geometric stylisations.
From Edgar Brandt decorated wrought-iron screens with symmetrical fountains and Emil Ruhlman ebony cabinets with ivory ...
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