Just before the pandemic hit I made a trip to Scotland, and I absolutely loved it: the water, the wind, the beautiful light of the purple...

UPDATE - Thanks to the tireless research of Angela Grant I was made aware that, although right on the cusp of the changeover from...

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...

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...

[click the < arrows > to slide] This week I have another gorgeous dessert service: a Spode "Imperial" dessert service with the famous...

[click the < arrows > to slide!] I have a special weakness for beautiful sets of plates... Not long ago I had a beautiful dessert service...

[click the < arrows > to slide!] It is autumn here, and all colours are changing fast... on my desk is a vase with beautiful...

[click the < arrows > to slide!] Today is the first Saturday of October, and where I live it is getting cold now. Mornings are dark, and...

A while ago I showed the two beautiful Minton figures of Miranda and Lalage in celadon "parian" china, and last week I showed the...