There were many porcelain based factories in England and some of them like the factories operating during the eighteenth century at Chelsea and Worcester were the most consistent in their use of marks. This helped the collectors to identify the original from the fake ones.
ENGLISH porcelain is, with the exception of Plymouth, all of […]
England has a rich collection of antique furniture in its possessions. This is because of its rich historical background. Many of their designs and style were copied and inspired from different countries. Let us have a look at some of the types of tables and from where they got their names.
Butler’s Trays
The butler as […]
The Persians were good potters and well advanced before the European even knew about pottery. Chinese wares were exported to these Persia and Near East countries. Discoveries through many excavations have revealed the beautiful Islamic wares, which were forgotten.
IN Persia and other Near East countries pottery had been made for many centuries, […]
The Royal gave permission to starts the National manufactory of porcelain in France in 1745 and make porcelain in the Saxon style. This is a painted and gilded with human figures, etc.
Sevres
The National Manufactory of porcelain in France was started in a disused chateau in the suburbs of Paris in 1738. In that year […]
There are some differences between the English and the Continental porcelain. They are different in their designs, styles and their paintings, printings and impressions. We will be looking at some these differences below.
CONTINENTAL porcelain differs essentially from English in that it was in nearly every instance, either at first or eventually, hard-paste. Even those […]
There were many small factories, which did not, got mentioned in many of the historical evidences that were discovered from different parts of England. But these small factories contributed much to the development and spread of the porcelain wares from the country. Here we are going to see about those small factories of porcelain works. […]
Stones like the soapstone and quartz are rarely known but they have significant importance in countries like China in their religious life besides their other uses in articles and figure. Here you will know more of them in more details.
Soapstone
After jade, the principal stone carved by the Chinese is soap-stone, a very soft material […]
Here we will be learning more about the history of porcelain. What are its ingredients, how is it prepared, and what are its uses. Porcelain has become one of the most common wares in the modern days.
PORCELAIN is subdivided into two kinds. The Oriental, true, or hard-paste porcelain was made first in the Far […]
Many people enjoy and use the furniture and hardly give a thought on how were the woods or the furniture comes into existence. Most of us dont know from which woods these furniture are made. Here we will look into the different kinds of sofas and other furniture.
Settles
A settle is a bench with arms […]
The progress in iron and steel gave new ideas of firearms where Samuel Colt the inventor of automatic revolver during the nineteenth century played an important part. The Italians and Germans were foremost in the making and decoration of Armour, allied crafts, ornamented caskets, strong boxes with locks and keys etc., the Japanese were widely […]
