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.
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Newbury sale features collection of well known interior designer, art dealer and collector
03 June 2024Count Manfredi Della Gherardesca 's collection offers old and new mix of more than 400 varied lots
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Super Bowl founder’s Limoges plaques fly to 34 times estimate in Florida auction
29 May 2024An exceptional pair of 16th century Limoges enamels attracted remarkable interest after emerging for sale in Florida.
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Auction firms team up for ceramics sale
27 May 2024Dreweatts and Christie’s will jointly sell the Stanley Goldfein collection of ceramics across two sales this year.
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Wedgwood teapot is among five lots to watch
27 May 2024With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week
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Sotheby’s announces details of latest summer show
24 May 2024Sotheby’s is hosting an exhibition in London this summer featuring 12 works loaned from museums. All the works are by artists who were born overseas but passed through or settled in the UK permanently.
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Merkle and his Meissen collecting mission
20 May 2024Focus on first part of a series of porcelain sales offering businessman’s collection
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Showpiece collection of British ceramics comes from Australia
20 May 2024Australian pharmaceutical chemist Robert Francis Burke started building his collection of Chelsea and Worcester porcelain in the 1970s, long before the days of the internet.
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British studio pottery features among TEFAF New York sales
16 May 2024Lucie Rie and other Modern masters delight buyers at recent fair
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Single-owner Nelson obsession
13 May 2024A collection of Nelson commemoratives amassed over 30 years includes pieces once owned by the man himself
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Group of prime period De Morgan tiles take close to six-figure sum at auction
29 April 2024The Art & Design post 1880 sale at Duke’s in Dorchester on April 25 included 44 lots of William De Morgan tiles consigned by descendants of Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930), Earl of Balfour and prime minister from 1902-05. He is understood to have bought them directly from De Morgan in Fulham.
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News in brief including a blue plaque for ceramicist Clarice Cliff
29 April 2024A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a blue plaque adorning the Shelton home of ceramicist Clarice Cliff.
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Flower power: British majolica hits the bigtime in US
29 April 2024A Copeland vase produced to mark 100 years of American Independence was among the highlights of the second tranche of the Flower collection of majolica.
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Massier Art Nouveau vase goes bats at auction
29 April 2024Abell’s (25% buyer’s premium) sale in Los Angeles on April 17 included a spectacular Art Nouveau vase from the workshop of French ceramicist Clement Massier.
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Up with the revolution (for porcelain)
29 April 2024Russian porcelain is still in demand, especially those early Soviet-era pieces from the years following the Revolution.
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Glass and ceramics combo makes a second appearance in West Midlands
29 April 2024Richard Burtonshaw launched his sold-out Premier Glass Fairs event last year at the Ruskin Glass Centre in Stourbridge and now he’s back in the Midlands on Sunday, May 12.
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Nelson's Worcester teapot brings £42,000
26 April 2024The so-called Horatia service – named after the daughter of Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton – is among the best documented commissions from the Chamberlain’s factory.
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A gift from Emma Hamilton to Nelson is among six lots to watch
22 April 2024With estimates from £600, here are six previews of lots coming up at auction this week.
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Obituary: Ceramics dealer Rod Jellicoe
22 April 2024We first met Rod over 40 years ago when we both dabbled in the flea markets of the North West. Rod was forming his business from tiny seeds and we were trying to make a little profit to feed our habit (collecting pots!).
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Merkle's Meissen figures show strength in Paris
18 April 2024The first part of one of the finest assemblages of 18th century Meissen porcelain figures still in private hands generated a premium-inclusive €948,450 at Bonhams in Paris on April 17.
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