Happy Easter! This feels like a strange thing to say in the middle of a global emergency, but the more we realise the fragility of life,...

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...

In my previous career I had the pleasure to work for a school that was located at St Donat's, one of Britains' best medieval castles in...

Putti, also called cherubs or cupids or little angels, are a very popular Western design feature and you can often see putti in the...

Some pigs get lucky as to where they live, such as the boar that got to be on the crest of Haddon Hall, the most beautiful and best...

While the world has been fighting a bug, I am fighting off my own passing cold with lots and lots of fruit. Which is a nice coincidence...

Last week I showed a wonderful reproduction of two tulip vases, today I have another very interesting reproduction... and this time the...

These tulip vases were popular in the early 19th Century and were made by unknown Staffordshire potters. But these particular ones have...