Last week's little pink plates flew away quickly, and today I have a very different set of plates: a full dessert service from about...

It is spring here in this part of the world! And after a long winter of perpetual greyness, it is an important, if not life saving season...

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!] I have a special weakness for beautiful sets of plates... Not long ago I had a beautiful dessert service...

These two vases with covers are a sublime piece of artistry. They were made by Royal Worcester in 1907. The late Victorians and...

I've been looking at very crafty imitations of Swansea items this week. Swansea and Nantgarw were two factories in Wales in the very...

I have just been spending the week in the beautiful city of Paris, so I thought to show you a top piece of Parisian beauty: a dessert...