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Ceramics Marked Hand-Painted
Caution should be exercised in evaluating ceramics marked “hand-painted”. A standard nineteenth century practice, and on in to the twentieth century, was to decorate china and other porcelains with transfers, adding a few minor brushstrokes and marking the piece “hand-painted” thus gaining prestige and premium prices. Genuinely hand-painted porcelains are seldom marked as such. Their hand-painted decoration is apparent from brush-strokes, the irregular borders of decorative elements and use of a [...] Click here to continue reading.
Hutschenreuther Porcelain
At the beginning of the 19th century, a young porcelain painter from Thuringia went in search of the “white gold”. His name: Carl Magnus Hutschenreuther, a visionary with courage to explore. It was in north-east Bavaria that he was lucky.
Here he found the “china clay” (or kaolin) for porcelain and a new home. In 1814, just 20 years of age, he founded the first modern and private porcelain factory in Bavaria. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Dutch and English Delftware
The seventeenth century has been described as the great age of maritme trade with faraway places. During the first quarter of the century – labeled the Golden Age in Holland – the Dutch began trading with the Chinese in the highly prized exotic imports of porcelains. This new mania drove the potters in the Netherlands to make tin-glazed earthenwares that borrowed heavily from Chinese forms and decorative motifs. Later in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sawankhalok Stoneware
The ancient walled city of Sawankhalok, located about 200 miles north of Bangkok was a major pottery center in the 14th and 15th centuries. A modern city of the same name is located nearby with a population exceeding 30,000.
More than two hundred pottery kilns are known to have operated in the region and a number have been excavated in modern times. The principal type of ware is a grayish-white stoneware covered [...] Click here to continue reading.
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