Quite often people ask me about the history of Old Tupton Ware. The title I suppose can be a little misleading because there is nothing old about this porcelain - it is in fact all brand new! Old Tupton Ware...
I thought that I would share the procedure that I use to double-box a breakable item for shipment. Please feel free to copy my procedure. (I'm sure many eBuyers would be happy if you did!!) Here's an antique...
The Science behind the question The earliest commercial synthetic resin is based on a Phenol formaldehyde resin with the commercial name Bakelite, and is formed from an elimination reaction of phenol with...
COLLECTING THOUGHT WHY WE COLLECT stephen visakay In 1940 an 80,000 year old cave was discovered n France. Among the artifacts discovered was a collection of small stones, high up on a natural shelf, all of...
AH, MY FAVORITE ERA OF ALL TIME......THE ROARING TWENTIES TO THE DIZZY THIRTIES.ALL PURE ART DECO. I LOVE THE ART WORK, THE FURNITURE, THE FASHION ( ESPECIALLY THE OUTFITS) AND OF COURSE THE JEWELRY....... ...
Art Education 101 Art Deco Art Deco Movement (1925 - 1939) Art Deco Influence Timeless.-International Design Movement in Fashion Design, Industrial design, interior design , and of course the Visual Arts....
Max LeVerrier (1891-1973) was a famous French sculptor based in Paris specialising in creating art deco figurines and statues including works such the famous Biba girl lamp. After the first world war Leverrier...
Fayral and Guerbe were 2 pseudonyms used by the famous Pierre Le Faguays. Fayral and Guerbe were both the family names for his mother and wife. Pierre Le Faguays was born in Nantes, France and became famous...
Joe Descomps (1869 - 1950) was a French sculptur working out of Paris in the 1920s and specialised in small scale figures in Ivory and Bronze. Although a number of his chyrselephantine figures are eclectic or...