Dragons' den
It's dragons today! I have recently found some wonderful dragon-like monsters on porcelain from about 1800 to 1820 (have a look in my...
Spring flowers
It is spring here in this part of the world! And after a long winter of perpetual greyness, it is an important, if not life saving season...
Thumb and Finger
I have been writing a few times lately about the interesting East-West mix of cultures in porcelain (see the links below). Right now we...
Beauty in extraordinary times
Now more than ever do we need beauty in our lives! These are extraordinary times and what makes it more unprecedented is that the whole...
Home of the hog
Some pigs get lucky as to where they live, such as the boar that got to be on the crest of Haddon Hall, the most beautiful and best...
An Ode to Fruit
While the world has been fighting a bug, I am fighting off my own passing cold with lots and lots of fruit. Which is a nice coincidence...
A garden of flowers
[click the < arrows > to slide!] I have a special weakness for beautiful sets of plates... Not long ago I had a beautiful dessert service...
Imitation, as good as real
I've been looking at very crafty imitations of Swansea items this week. Swansea and Nantgarw were two factories in Wales in the very...
