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...

Need some sauce with your dessert? How about these stunning sauce tureens... This pair of sauce tureens with covers is extremely rare. It...

It's finally summer! (well, officially, this is still late spring). Flowers are out everywhere. This is my favourite time of year. It is...

In the early days of the Coalport factory, the shrewd owner John Rose slowly built up the the factory, which was being transformed from...

I usually only sell British porcelain, but when these beautiful Parisian plates made their way to me, how could I have rejected them? In...

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...

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...

Happy weekend! Today I am showing a very special part-dessert service. It is exceptionally elegant and beautiful, but it is also very...

In the 19th Century British porcelain factories, the decorators did usually not get a fixed wage but were paid per piece, so when trade...

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...