(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Flow blue ware was produced by many Staffordshire potters. Among the most familiar were Meigh, Podmore and Walker, Samuel Alcock, Ridgway, John Wedge Wood, and Davenport. It was popular from about 1825 through 1860, and again from 1880 through the turn of the century. The name [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Lithophanes are porcelain panels with relief designs of varying degrees of thickness and density. Transmitted light brings out the pattern in graduated shading, lighter where the porcelain is thin and darker in the heavy areas. Lithophanes were cast from wax models prepared by artists and often depict views [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Longwy pottery was established in the Meurthe et Moselle region of France near the point where France, Luxembourg and Belgium meet. The Longwy factory of France started making pottery in 1798. In 1872, it began producing pottery that mimicked the very popular cloisonné enamel metal vases being made in [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Willow Ware was inspired by the numerous patterns of the blue and white Nanking imports. It has been popular since the late 18th Century and has been made in as many variations as there were manufacturers. English transfer wares by such firms as Allerton and Ridgway are the [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Imari is the name given to the world famous Japanese porcelain produced in Arita, Hizen province (modern Saga-prefecture) on the Island of Kyushu and other locations. The name Imari was taken from the Japanese port town from which the porcelain was shipped to other parts of Japan and abroad by [...]
