Ceramics
Ceramics are among the most frequently collected antiques. Items made from earthernware (pottery) or porcelain (hard or soft paste) can serve functional roles such as tablewares, serving implements, vases and jugs or as ornaments, especially figures.
They usually have some form of decoration, either painted or transfer-printed, that is covered in transparent or coloured glaze. Ceramics are often catalogued by the name of their manufacturer or factory such as Meissen, Worcester, Doulton, Wedgwood and Sèvres.

Police alerted to missing collection of porcelain from Wiltshire auction house
16 January 2021A Wiltshire auction house has alerted the trade to a missing collection of porcelain.

Toasting a toby jug auction record as Admiral Rodney jug brings buoyant demand
11 January 2021Bonhams has set a new record for a toby jug with this c.1785 Admiral Lord Rodney jug.

Pick of the week: Take tea with the queen – at a twelfth the normal size
11 January 2021A copy of the Royal Doulton dinner service commissioned in 1922 for Queen Mary’s doll’s house sold for a top-estimate £30,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) as part of the Thomas Goode auction at Sotheby’s.

Polito’s Menagerie doubles up at Edinburgh auction
11 January 2021A recent sale at Franklin Browns (18% buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh on included one of the most ambitious and most desirable of all early 19th century Staffordshire figure groups: the 'Polito’s Menagerie of the wonderful burds and beasts from most parts of the world'.

Soviets on the rise: Bolshevik propaganda plate bring demand at UK auctions
11 January 2021When the Bolshevik government took control of the Imperial Porcelain Factory following the October Revolution of 1917, large quantities of glazed but unpainted white hard-paste porcelain plates, cups and saucers remained at the site.

Alchin and Kenber collections of Worcester porcelain up to Scratch Cross
11 January 2021Bonhams has a long tradition of single-owner sales devoted to noted collections of early English porcelain.

Meissen porcelain goes into battle
11 January 2021The rules of kriegsspiel (war game), popular at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, were partly based on the much older game of chess. Typically, kriegsspiel was played across three boards, with players only knowing the position of their own pieces and an umpire officiating.

Mug makes the case for abolition
11 January 2021A collection of English pottery offered by Adam Partridge (20% buyer’s premium) in Macclesfield included this early 19th century copper lustre and transfer printed ‘anti-slavery’ mug.

Enter the dragon – collection of Welsh ceramics sold in Cardiff includes choice entries
11 January 2021The Welsh Sale at Rogers Jones (22% buyer’s premium) in Cardiff included a large section of Welsh ceramics from a west Wales estate.

Ceramics and glassware: taking the market for toby jugs at face value
11 January 2021A London auction offering ceramics fans a treat thanks to single-owner collections and a mixed array leads a look at the market as a whole

Picasso and Hugo partnership platters appear in first UK show
11 January 2021Though prolific in many mediums, Pablo Picasso created silver platters in only 24 designs throughout his entire career, creating an even smaller number of pieces in gold.

Amphora pottery brings a touch of Bohemian Art Nouveau to Denver
11 January 2021Amphora was the name given to the distinctive Continental pottery produced between the last decade of the 19th and the first of the 20th century in the central European Turn-Teplitz area of Bohemia by the RSt&K (Riessner Stellmaker and Kessel) factory.

Strong selling rate as market responds to abundant Wedgwood offerings
11 January 2021A vast quantity of Wedgwood was on offer in a pair of decorative arts auctions held in Massachusetts at the end of last year.

Orientalist basin, mahogany bookcases, Arts and Crafts oak chest – five auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes
08 January 2021ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes a rare Orientalist basin by the French ‘father of art pottery’ and a pair of mahogany bookcases that went 16 times over estimate.

ATG letter: The Morris label is from later date
04 January 2021MADAM – Re: your article on the William De Morgan ‘Frightened Bird’ dish sold for £27,000 at Martel Maides (Pick of the Week, ATG No 2471).

Waistel Cooper in his own world
04 January 2021Once dismissed as a mere Hans Coper follower, the studio potter is now in rising demand

Anti-slavery jug leads our pick of five auction highlights sold this month
27 December 2020ATG’s latest selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes an early 19th century ‘anti-slavery’ jug that made over 20-times estimate in Macclesfield.

Historic tableware firm Thomas Goode & Company to sell archive and historic items in Sotheby’s auction
23 December 2020Thomas Goode & Company, the Mayfair retailer of tableware to royalty and celebrities since the 1840s, plans an auction of its archive.

Pick of the week: Vincennes Louis XV dish takes £95,000
21 December 2020This 12½in (32cm) Vincennes circular dish or plat d’entremets from the first Louis XV service sold for £95,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Woolley & Wallis.

Top-selling Staffordshire figure group stars in our weekly pick of five auction highlights
18 December 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes one of the most ambitious and desirable early 19th century Staffordshire figure groups that made over 30-times estimate in Edinburgh.

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