Ceramics
Ceramics are among the most frequently collected antiques. Items made from earthernware (pottery) or porcelain (hard or soft paste) can serve functional roles such as tablewares, serving implements, vases and jugs or as ornaments, especially figures.
They usually have some form of decoration, either painted or transfer-printed, that is covered in transparent or coloured glaze. Ceramics are often catalogued by the name of their manufacturer or factory such as Meissen, Worcester, Doulton, Wedgwood and Sèvres.
Studio ceramics in starring role at auction
08 May 2017Overshadowed by the boom in Chinese works and contemporary art they may have been, but the rise in demand for British studio ceramics has been the talk of the market these last few years.
Fleecy does it for Lowestoft joys sold in Norfolk
02 May 2017What Aylsham auction house Keys (20% buyer’s premium) considered one of the largest private collections of Lowestoft ever to come to market was a near sell-out on March 21.
Russian ceramic temple tribute to Catherine the Great
02 May 2017A Russian ceramic homage to Catherine the Great is among the highlights at Schloss Ahlden’s sale on May 6-7 in Ahlden, Lower Saxony. The impressive 22in (55cm) high bronze-mounted porcelain ensemble in the form of a temple dates to the 1780s or ’90s and is estimated at €48,000. It was produced by the Gardner factory in Moscow, which was founded in 1765.
Large porcelain collection amassed by Wedgwood descendant returns to Leith Hill Place
29 April 2017More than 140 pieces of Wedgwood go on display today in a Surrey Hills stately home.
Pick of the Week: Bovey pottery figure of Joseph Stalin in British bidding battle
24 April 2017The Bovey Pottery Company, closed in 1957, would have passed into collecting history without incident had it not been for the ‘Our Gang’ collection of figures.
Liverpool delft charger owned by Pennsylvania Quakers
24 April 2017This 8¾in (23cm) diameter Liverpool delft charger, dated 1738, is initialled MML for Michael and Mary Lightfoot, members of a Quaker family who lived in Chester County.
Simon Spero puts the spotlight on Vauxhall and Limehouse
24 April 2017The English porcelain specialist Simon Spero opens his 37th catalogued exhibition this week in his Kensington shop.
Tempting estimates help to bring bidders to Clevedon
10 April 2017A record sale total, the trade in buying mood and traditional furniture selling well – all further evidence that 2017 so far is proving rather less catastrophic than some had forecast.
Early maiolica market tester at Sam Fogg
10 April 2017A ground-breaking Mayfair exhibition takes a rare focus on first examples of the maiolica technique.
5 Questions: Meissen specialist Alexandra Alfandary
10 April 2017Alexandra Alfandary specialises in Meissen ware and other European porcelain, with a particular concentration on 19th century Meissen. She is a regular exhibitor at fairs and is a member of BADA and LAPADA. Her shop is in Portobello Road.
Runcorn auction rides in with a Beswick rarity
10 April 2017A rare version of one of the most popular of Beswick farm figures, a shire horse in a piebald gloss finish, pulled its weight at The Auction Centre (16% buyer’s premium) in Runcorn on March 18.
Extensive collection of Picasso ceramics appears at Sotheby's auction
06 April 2017Eighty-six lots of ceramics by Pablo Picasso come up for sale on April 10 in Sotheby’s annual dedicated auction in London.
Pick of the Week: A double helping of Russian Raphael
05 April 2017Inspired by an exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of Raphael’s birth in 1883, Alexander III (1845-94) commissioned a porcelain dinner service for use in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoe Selo, writes Roland Arkell.
A present from ‘Edinborough’
01 April 2017Presumably the recipient, one Charles Salter of ‘Edinborough’, was pleased to receive to this 18th century green-glazed creamware presentation teapot in 1791.
A Napoleonic sit down protest
01 April 2017A fairly early example of a traditional way of insulting Britain’s enemies up to and including the Second World War, this early 19th century twin-handled chamber pot was rated at £2200 by bidders at Lockdales (18% buyer’s premium) at Ipswich.
‘The good old days’ at Chelsea
01 April 2017This unusual Staffordshire figure of Billy Walters, c.1820, by Enoch Wood was among the pieces sold at the recent Chelsea Antiques, Art & Design Fair (March 15-19).
The quiet Royal Copenhagen market shows signs of stirring
25 March 2017The £810,000 wucai fish at Fellows’ (20% buyer’s premium) sale at Birmingham on February 27 (ATG No 2282) overshadowed everything else on offer but there were a number of other areas of interest among the 1250 lots.
Pick of the Week: Royalist rarity takes £20,000
18 March 2017Estimated at £1500-2000, this rare English delft dish sold for £20,000 (plus 22.5% buyer’s premium) at Cheffins in Cambridge on March 8.
Moorcroft connections help commercial fortunes
18 March 2017This 7 x 4in (18 x 11cm) enamel plaque in a silvered frame (right) by Francis Arthur Edwardes is the work of the Duchess of Sutherland Cripples Guild – the metalware workshop set up to aid and educate the children of the Potteries.
New grant helps funding appeal to keep Wedgwood First Day’s vase in Stoke on Trent
17 March 2017Stoke-on-Trent’s Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is hopeful of raising nearly half a million pounds to buy a Wedgwood First Day’s vase after it was awarded a £90,000 grant from the Art Fund.
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