For the bold and the brave
If you have followed me for a while, you may know that I love porcelain from the H&R Daniel Factory. This was a rather short-lived...
Marquess of Anglesey
Need some sauce with your dessert? How about these stunning sauce tureens... This pair of sauce tureens with covers is extremely rare. It...
Welcome to summer
It's finally summer! (well, officially, this is still late spring). Flowers are out everywhere. This is my favourite time of year. It is...
The Baxter Studio
In the early days of the Coalport factory, the shrewd owner John Rose slowly built up the the factory, which was being transformed from...
Midnight in Paris
I usually only sell British porcelain, but when these beautiful Parisian plates made their way to me, how could I have rejected them? In...
The mystery collector
It's time for a new feature in Homes & Antiques, and this time I am writing about someone I have presented to you earlier last year: the...
Mr Greatbatch's flowers
It is spring! It is a mighty cold April here in the UK so we are all still shivering indoors, but my tulips are out in force, and the...
Billingsley's flowers
Happy weekend! Today I am showing a very special part-dessert service. It is exceptionally elegant and beautiful, but it is also very...
Flowers are timeless
In the 19th Century British porcelain factories, the decorators did usually not get a fixed wage but were paid per piece, so when trade...
In praise of tobacco
No, this is not what it sounds like! I am not praising the unhealthy habit of smoking - in fact I have never smoked one cigarette in my...
