The Life and Death of the Art Porcelain Market
As evidenced by the growing number of ‘lost’ porcelain studios I have been profiling here, and the number of inquiries …
Category Archives: Antique & Vintage Porcelain
‘Porcelain Plus…’: Gallery of Porcelain-and-Bronze Sculptures
Having covered the technical details of combining fragile porcelain with unyielding bronze in my previous ‘Porcelain Plus…’ post, this will …
‘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 …
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 …
