Ceramics

The name Ducret has been closely connected to the world of faience ever since the 1950s, when Siegfried Ducret published the first of numerous indispensable handbooks for collectors of and dealers in European porcelain and faience.

It comes with very great sadness to announce the death of Anna Katherine Harvey Haughton (1937-2026), a figure so well known and loved by the art world, who died peacefully on August 9, surrounded by her family.

The Age of Jazz figures issued in 1930 are among the most desirable of all Clarice Cliff models.

A Wedgwood Fairyland lustre rarity – an original work on paper design by Daisy Makeig-Jones (1881-1945) – featured among the top lots in the July 12 auction at Lion and Unicorn (28% buyer’s premium).

The heyday of Dutch and English tinglazed earthenwares coincided with the reign of William and Mary.

Safavid examples from the north London dealer's collection find their latest homes after palace demolition

A sale of items from the holdings of a pioneer ‘craft’ collector at Rago-Wright in Lambertville, New Jersey, was topped by a Cycladic arrow form by Hans Coper (1920-81).

A Moorcroft Moonlit Blue Landscape vase made for the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley in 1924 led the Design sale at Lay’s (21% buyer’s premium) in Penzance on July 23.

Bonhams’ mixed-owner ceramics sale on June 24-25 featured two exceptional English delftware dishes from ‘a distinguished family collection’ outside the UK.

Journalist Lucinda Bredin and her husband, author James Runcie, have developed tulip-mania. The couple, who married last year, have begun growing tulips and collecting tulipieres and vases.

Couple fascinated by worldwide development of ceramics – but with early English makers also prominent

Prices for artist-decorated Royal Worcester porcelain have been waning since the collecting peak of the previous century. However, very substantial sums are still possible for the best of the genre.

A Suffolk auction house has successfully received an exemption certificate for an early 20th century ivory figure following a complex appeals process.

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of long-standing member of the Lyon & Turnbull family Theo Burrell after a four-year battle with an aggressive brain tumour. She died peacefully on Wednesday, July 8, surrounded by her family.

Italian adventurer Vincenzo Lunardi (1759-1806) first demonstrated his hot air balloon in London on September 15, 1784.

South Yorkshire bottle and advertising specialist BBR Auctions set a new house record with the sale of this Prattware advertising plaque for a remarkable £45,000.

A rare 1804 album of 41 watercolours of British birds by William Weston Young (1776-1847) will be offered at Rogers Jones in Cardiff on July 27.

Made c.1880, this Wedgwood majolica model of a kingfisher is a ‘rara avis’, with only a handful known.

Lots offer elements that once featured on much larger spectacular 19th century creations