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1. Wade Whimsies Ceramic Figurines Wade Whimsies first appeared in 1953 and were a product of the need for new retail lines as the Wade potteries lost contracts in their traditional industrial ceramics market. The result was a series of miniature porcelain animal models. Wade had prod...
2. Collectible Cornishware Pottery With its mild climate and beautiful scenery, Cornwall, England's most south-westerly county, has become famous for its artists and craftsmen including many potters. Ironically, the most famous of the ceramics associated with the county, Cornishware,...
3. Decorative Ceramics Ceramics, while beautiful, can also be very practical in our daily lives. Take, for example, ceramic house numbers. These can add style to an otherwise boring necessity for the home. The sizes vary, though regardless of the size, they always stand ou...
4. Carlton Ware - 20th Century Ceramics There is more to collecting British 20th century ceramics than Clarice Cliff and Susie Cooper. One of the growing areas of interest is Carlton Ware, popular with collectors for many years. Its strong, sometimes quirky, designs fit in well with 21st c...
5. Susie Cooper: A Great Pottery Designer How did the youngest child of a middle class family become one of the most influential designers of the 20th century? Although, small in stature, Susie Cooper became one of the giants of 20th century design in a career that spanned more than seventy...
6. Everything about Italian Ceramics Everything you wish to know about Italian Ceramics AND an exciting shopping experience. How to's, Italian traditions, typical designs, history of Italian ceramics, news about events and exhibitions. And a direct link to a 4,000 piece collect...
7. Practical Ceramics   You probably think of garden pixies and dog bowls when you think of ceramics, and you'd be right. But did you know that ceramics are used in a number of purely practical applications as well as the more decorative ones? For example, in the...
8. British Pottery Marks If you are new to collecting pottery, or even if you aren't, you will undoubtedly spend quite a lot of time poring over the pottery marks of the pieces in your collection. Variously referred to as backstamps, pottery marks, pottery backstamps and mak...
9. ceramic Christmas trees Many years ago when mothers didn't have to work outside the home, they needed to "get out" for the evening, so they would go to ceramics studios where many of them made ceramic Christmas trees.  These trees are now being found in attic...
10. Wade Whimsies and Figurines The original Wade Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, England, began in 1810 and took over several companies in the area and in Northern Ireland. It wasn't until the 1920s it started producing figurines and the 1950s when it started its famous Whimsies which...
11. Dragons I'm making this page about dragons because I am getting ready to write a story about dragons and this is where I'll do my brainstorming and getting ideas for what to write.
12. Ming Tees - Asian Inspired Design Welcome to Ming Tees!   T Shirts and accessories inspired by a love of east Asian art and design, from Chinese painting, tapestries, ceramics, medallions,and symbols to Japanese kamon, kimonos, textiles, and woodcuts, surf style shirts and more....
13. Royal Haeger Pottery & Collectibles If you are looking for a line of made in the USA ceramics and pottery, allow me to introduce you to Haeger Potteries and Royal Haeger. In this line, you can find stylish planters, vases, pitchers, lamps, candlesticks, centerpieces, and figurines. I'v...
14. Penny's Antiques And Wedgwood Pantry Wedgwood blue jasperware has been produced by the Wedgwood company in England for about 250 years; and I believe they ceased production of this particular product in about 2000. Other "look-a-like" companies produced imitations of Wedgwood...
15. Artisan Gonder Pottery Made in the Forties A cheap entertainment for our family when the kids were young was going to antique fairs in Pomona, CA. Antique pottery had a very big presence there, but Gonder pottery never became familiar to me. I found this wonderful ceramic pottery when I decid...
16. My Teapot Collection One of my favourite books is The Book of Tea, by Kakuzo Okakura. It starts with the words, "Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The f...
17. Toby and Character Jugs Love them or hate them, most people can identify a Toby jug. They depict a multitude of characters from historic times to the present day and come in a range of sizes. Popular for more than 200 years, in the 20th century they enjoyed renewed surge o...
18. Antiques and Wedgwood Pantry WELCOME TO PENNY'S ANTIQUES AND WEDGWOOD PANTRY Come on in and browse around anytime--we'll leave the light on for you! We think we have something for everybody--or soon will. You never know what you will find on our Pantry Shelves. If you...
19. Wedgwood And The Wedgwood Museum Saturday, October 04, 2008 Wedgwood Musuem to Open in October The long-awaited Wedgwood Museum, located at the site of the Wedgwood factory in Barlaston, UK is scheduled to open on October 24, 2008. Some will visit Wedgwood to see the first vases which...
20. The Amazing Cephalopod Gift Guide Octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and the nautilus are amazing cool animals. There are lots of really wonderful cephalopod inspired gifts out there, many made by independent designers and artists.