A major competition came for a set of Russian porcelain figures at Tennants’ Country House sale in Leyburn, North Yorkshire today.

These objects inhabit an antique shop known as the "Ye Old China Shop" and are made of fine porcelain ... the shopkeeper would increase the prices of the porcelain figures, making them expensive for ...

This figure was made from the Great Exhibition of 1851 by one of the greatest French makers, Giles. It is made from biscuit porcelain and the inclusion of a broken pitcher in the arms of the ...

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a pair of ‘dry edge’ English porcelain figures that sold for 50-times estimate.

At this time, no porcelain sculptures on the same scale as the largest of these Japanese Palace animals (our vulture measures 57.5 cm x 23 cm), had been attempted anywhere in the world. Goat figure, ...

In this chapter we will take a look at figures, tables and references. These are all important elements of reporting the findings of your research, and often cause problems although they are really ...

We hear that the China made at Chelsea is arriv'd to such perfection, as to equal if not surpass the finest old Japan ... Royal Collection Trust The Chelsea porcelain factory was also able to copy ...

2d ed., rev. and enl. Camden, New Jersey, 1972. Casey, Elizabeth Temple. The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century. Providence: Rhode Island School of ...

Boucher was a prolific painter in all genres as well as a designer for the theatre, and for tapestries, book illustrations and porcelain figures. His first commission for the king was in 1735. The ...

Martin Luther was born on 10 November 1483 in Eisleben. His father was a copper miner. Luther studied at the University of Erfurt and in 1505 decided to join a monastic order, becoming an ...

We've all used porcelain. Many of us grew up dusting the Lladró porcelain at Grandma's house. Despite the ubiquity of porcelain, have you ever wondered what porcelain is exactly? And why it costs so ...

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