Category: Lost Porcelain Studios

Identifying Original-Studio Connoisseur of Malvern Porcelain

The original Connoisseur of Malvern studio existed for 15 years, starting in 1979 and operating under the ownership and direction of Diane Lewis and her husband Terry. Because the studio changed ownership and staff after it was sold, collectors of Connoisseur of Malvern may (and should) want to differentiate between the original-studio and post-studio-sale products.…

Connoisseur of Malvern Porcelain Plaques

The original Connoisseur studio created two types of hand-painted porcelain plaques: flat-painted and dimensional. All the dimensional plaques are botanical subjects and were produced in a variety of sizes and editions.  They are shown below in chronological order by introduction year. The first Connoisseur plaques were issued in 1981 which was the second year of…