Porcelain Collectibles Guide
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(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. [...]
0 Comments If you are contemplating the purchase of the set of dinnerware, how do you decide between the multitudes of possibilities? First you should consider when the china will be used. It is for special occasions or everyday? China for special occasions, dinner parties, Christmas feasts, visits by the queen, etc. should probably be made from finer materials [...]
(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 [...]
(pronunciation: as spelled, German first name Franz) Location: headquarters in San Francisco, research center in Taipei, manufactured in mainland China. Representative offices in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand. The porcelains produced by this company are beautifully made, unique in design and reflect a love of nature in all its forms: animal, bird, insect, flowers, [...]
Delftware, pronounced as it appears, originally meant the blue and white pottery made in the area of Northern Europe between Antwerp and Amsterdam. The first Delftware was produced in 1512 and reached its height of production in the Netherlands from 1640 to 1740. The potteries in the Netherlands produced over 8 million tiles over 200 [...]
When you look back at the ceramics produced over time and world wide, one technique keeps re-occurring, tin-glaze. What is so alluring about this method of finishing plain pottery? Color. Not the color of tin-glaze, but the way it makes other colors pop. When fired, the tin-glaze provides an opaque white base for any other [...]
Other names: Imperial Porcelain Factory, State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (pronunciation: lo-mo-no-sov, all long o’s? Anybody speak Russian?) Location: St. Petersburg, Russia Current Lomonosov production is readily available in jewelry, gift and fine department stores and on the Internet. The company has factory store in Russia, so you will have to get your [...]
I have just discovered a new realm of porcelain: Soviet porcelain. Created for the home crowd during the existence of the USSR and with travel restrictions on foreigners, these ceramics are not well known in the outside world. The ones I have seen are fairly simple in modeling and decoration. With a white porcelain body, the colors used [...]