Porcelain Collectibles Guide
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(pronunciation: as spelled) Block China Company produces a range of dinnerware. Some are modern shapes, and some have flowers in a modern presentation. Overall, the designs are light and informal. If I were collecting this company’s production, it would be a creamer from each pattern. There are three or four shapes used for the creamers, [...]
0 Comments (pronunciation: see-bis, as far as I know. Know differently? Send me a line.) Location: USA For the first time I have to pan the production of an entire company. Cybis’ production is mundane or trite. They sometimes try to use humor, as in Mick, the Melodious Mutt, but the results are not particularly funny. Their [...]
(pronunciation: shay-fer and vay-ter) Location: Germany Schafer and Vater started producing a German version of the jasper ware made by Wedgwood in the 19th century. The designs are similar with white figures or decoration on a bisque body of some color. These include a medium green, one of Wedgwood’s most popular colors, and a strong [...]
(pronunciation: as spelled) Location: England. Wedgwood is best known for the jasper ware Josiah Wedgwood devised soon after starting the company in 1759. This clay body is not glazed, but vitrifies to a bisque finish. Wedgwood performed thousands of experiments before he had a clay body of the right colors which could be decorated by [...]
(pronunciation: as spelled) Location: USA The first products I noticed from this new ( i.e. mid-20th century) company was their tumblers: figures caught in the various points of a somersault, usually in sets of three: rabbits, Santa Claus, snowmen, dogs, cats, witches, etc. They also produce funny salt and pepper sets: cat and jack-o-lantern, reindeer and [...]
(pronunciation: as spelled.) Location: Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic The most exciting products of this porcelain manufacturer are the six modern forms used in their current production. Highly modern tea and coffee sets, the pieces are, of course, usable, but really are of display quality by virtue of the designs. Each set can be acquired at one time [...]
(pronunciation: don’t know. Anybody?) Location: Hungary. This company continues to produce ceramics with their unique eosin glazes. This glaze is world famous for its deep color and iridescence. The firing process is complicated, but also provides each piece with a unique finish. Many of the forms are simply modeled and show the glaze off beautifully. [...]
(pronunciation: press-shuss mo-ments) Location: Precious Moments Park and Chapel, Carthage, Missouri For those of you who have been living out of country (or in a cave) for the last 20 years, Precious Moments makes figurines of children with big heads, large oval eyes and mildly Christian sentiments. These include gifts for every day and those for [...]
(pronunciation: ar-mon-e) Location: Tuscani, Italy Armani porcelain is designed by Guiseppe Armani (1935 – 2006) and made by the Florence Sculpture d’Arte (est 1973). Sr. Armani has produced figurines reminiscent from the 16th century Renaissance to the modern era. He creates primarily figures of women: women in costumes, women of myth, women dancing, women with [...]
(pronunciation: as spelled, no difficulties) Location: England Like many porcelain manufacturing companies in England, Coalport has been in business for many years (over 200) and has had a number of owners and production facilities, with varying success. Their current products include dinnerware and porcelain figurines. Coalport is known for its many series of female figures in [...]