‘Porcelain Plus…’, Part 1: Creating Porcelain-and-Bronze Sculptures
The pairing of fine porcelain with metal components instantly creates a dichotomy: Here we have one of the most fragile …
Category Archives: Antique & Vintage Porcelain
Nefertiti: Six Decades of Portraits in Porcelain
‘A beautiful woman has come’ is indeed an apt translation of the famed Egyptian queen Nefertiti’s name. During the more …
Lost Porcelain Studios: Gunther Granget (Part 2)
Although birds formed the majority of sculptures that Granget designed for the Hutschenreuther studio (see Part 1), animal and human …
Lost Porcelain Studios: Gunther Granget (Part 1)
Although most of my Lost Porcelain Studios series focuses on actual studio operations, there were a few porcelain artists who …
Boehm of Malvern, 1980-1994, Part Three: People, Eggs, and Ornaments
This final instalment of my overview of the Boehm of Malvern studio in England covers three genres (human figures, decorative …
Boehm of Malvern 1980-1994, Part Two: Birds and Flowers
One trend that is noticeable when reviewing the circa-1980s Boehm of Malvern designs is a growing tendency to depict human …
Silver and Bronze from Boehm of Llandow, Wales
The Boehm porcelain studio’s expansion into the UK widened even further during the 1980s. They already had a porcelain studio …
Boehm of Malvern Collector Plates, 1980 – 1990
As a result of the retail success of their first-decade series of collector plates, the Boehm of Malvern studio went …
