Ceramics

This pair of wucai floral wine cups have Guangxu marks and are of the period (1875-1908).

Sotheby’s conducts a timed online sale from May 10-17 titled A Journey Through China’s History: The Dr Wou Kiuan Collection.

The sale at Ma San in Bath on May 4 includes this Japanese double gourd carp vase by Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916).

Fifty years after buying it the first time, former dealer Ray Heath has been reunited with a beloved Moorcroft vase.

While most dealerships look to existing auction houses to sell off excess stock, some dealers have brought the practice in house.

Forgotten today, a collection sold in Somerset remembers a multi-talented showman and author

By far the most desirable wares from the Goodwin & Harris ‘Metropolitan Scenery’ series of blue and white transfer printed earthenwares are those featuring cricketers in the grounds of Windsor Great Park.

The Collections sale at Bonhams (27.5% buyer’s premium) in London on March 21 included more than 70 lots of Regency porcelain from the collection of the Conservative party politician Howard Emerson Flight.

There was plenty of choice for ceramics collectors at the Krehbiel collection sale.

Objects associated with the infamous 18th century ‘Beggars Bennison’ society command a certain appeal.

Ceramic works by the late Lady Anne Gordon, Dowager Marchioness of Aberdeen (1924-2007) are becoming a favourite with a new generation of collectors and decorators.

ATG made a visit to Moreton-in-Marsh in the Cotswolds for Kinghams Auctioneers’ Martinware show

American couple amassed an extensive collection from the famous English factory

The series of relatively austere wares made by Moorcroft in the 1930s are, today at least, not the factory’s most commercial designs.

Kenneth Ely (b.1926) had a first career as a jockey, apprenticed at the age of 15

An exceptional piece of Regency porcelain emerged for sale at Hannams (23% buyer’s premium) in Selborne, Hampshire, on February 21-24.

This 9in (22cm) vase by the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory is signed and dated 1929 for Aleksey Vorobyevsky (1906-92)