Anchor
I have featured beautiful Coalport dessert services painted by Cecil Jones before (and see a previous blog post here) - and I am pleased...
Breakfast cups
It is weekend, and haven't we all deserved a very large cup of tea or coffee? That's what breakfast cups were invented for: extra large...
How to eat dessert in style
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...
Mountains, water, skies
Just before the pandemic hit I made a trip to Scotland, and I absolutely loved it: the water, the wind, the beautiful light of the purple...
Fans, flowers or mons?
Happy Saturday! In a world in turmoil and difficulty, let's focus on some beauty - as beauty always gives us strength and that can only...
Tumbledown Dick
Last week I showed how British porcelain makers imitated Chinese designs, and this week I have another beautiful example of this. The...
Boy at the Door
In these last few weeks quite a few pieces found their way to me that were made in England in the late 18th or early 19th Century, but...
Back to Simplicity
This week I have brought out a series of items in simple designs - perhaps it is the lockdown that has inspired me to focus on...
Spring flowers
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...
Lost in translation
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will have seen what I wrote about a Thomas Rose / Coalport saucer the other day. It was about a...
