At the oldest public art museum in the United States, miniatures, glassware and other intricately created works transport ...
Lush, deep green leaves glowing with life appear to overgrow its canvas, while a thinly framed black border barely contains ...
The very earliest wares take their decoration from Chinese and Japanese (kakiemon) porcelain and their forms from silver shapes. Coloured enamels also predominate over underglaze blue decoration but ...
At first the decoration was only in underglaze blue and consisted, like so many other early English factories, of Chinese-inspired painted landscapes or simple floral motifs. Although underglaze blue ...
According to the historians, the kingdom was marred by internal strife for power. Despite several hurdles, Ahmad Shah I ...
Seoul Museum of Art is hosting Koo Bohnchang’s Voyages (December 14, 2023 – March 10, 2024), a retrospective by a representative of contemporary art, Koo Bohnchang (b. 1953).
Early on, Kamoda’s exhibitions were met with crowds who lined up around the block to see his elegant, elusive works.
After acquiring Lonhuda Pottery, Weller began to produce underglaze-decorated artware with subtle color gradations produced with an atomizer, echoing the technique pioneered by Rookwood Pottery. Over ...
Hidden mother photographs, depicting obscured adults supporting children, highlight Victorian culture's focus on nurturing and the mother-child bond.
MARKS: Crossed swords in underglaze blue; “↗↗” impressed. PURCHASED FROM: William H. Lautz, New York, 1962. This tea bowl and saucer is from the Smithsonian’s Hans Syz Collection of Meissen Porcelain.
At Hangzhou Museum in Zhejiang province, a fridge magnet shaped like a “little pink cup” has become highly sought after, and around 40,000 of these have been sold since late July. This magnet is ...
A white plate featuring a scalloped edge with a gold rim. The plate has relief flowers around the rim and in the bowl of the vessel. There are four flower groupings around the rim, with one flower ...