Fenton milk glass (hobnail pattern)

4 smallish Fenton milk glass pieces purchased from one seller, who’s based in Ohio US, where Fenton Art Glass Company is based (like 2h drive away actually). I thought what’s on offer probably is genuine & cheaper. She indeed has a wide range of Fenton glassware, normally sells for much more in Australia. Obviously a huge [...]

6 teacup duos c.1930~1950 (eBay purchases)

Oh dear… I think I need more display spaces in my phantom cupboard! (or better still, another bigger matching 1930’s art deco display cabinet to the one in my rented house – will be on the hunt at Antique dealers once I get back to A house!). Despite a large number of photos, there are [...]

Fire King, Anchor Hocking (continued)

As I said in my previous post, there seems not be a huge market for jadeite (jadite (US?)) Anchor Hocking Fire King pieces, at least in Australia anyway (more in US, where it originates). I’m still in search for jadeite cup & saucer duo, as well as the turquoise (robin’s egg blue), but in the [...]

Fire King, Anchor Hocking, depression glasswares ‘in the Mood for Love’

We recently watched the movie ‘In the Mood for Love’, a poignant, stylish story set in 1960’s Hong Kong, directed by Wong Kar Wai (imdb or wikipedia), which has to be one of my all time favourite movies. I love both Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung in it, their fashion (Chan tai – Maggie’s character’s [...]

more on manto-ware

I was quite unconvinced with a lack of information available on English websites (that’s language, not country-specific) on Manto-ware (or Mantoware, Manto ware?), so tried my darnedest to find information in Japanese (that’s both language and country-specific). Afterall, Manto-ware is made in Japan (according to the stamp)!!!
Few Australian people attempted the same searches in English [...]

eBay purchases 10 April 2010

Been on another eBay buying frenzy (one of those phase with 3 pages of items being ‘watched’ – it’ll pass soon ). These are my most recent purchases from the same seller (good for shaving off postage, which can be a bummer if only buying 1 or 2).

1st row left: A metal antique tea [...]

中國民間藝術 Chinese Folk Art (book) 3

Curator of the University Museum & Art Gallery, Yeung Chun-tong 楊春堂（but 木 instead of 土), discusses relationship between Chinese Folk Art prints & porcelain decoration.
…Diaper and net pattens are commonly stamped on green-glazed ceramics of the Western Jin Dynasty. Often found in between these patterns is a bead pattern (Tianjin Teachers print below). This bead [...]

伊万里焼２ Imari Porcelain history 2

Continuing interaction with Chinese porcelain ware & on 18/19th century ‘imitation’ English/European ‘Imari’ ware
Although Japan ‘closed’ itself to Western interaction during the Edo period of Tokugawa Shoguns (1603-1868), apparently, trade of ceramics was significant (according to Jan-Erik Nilsson of gotheborg.com). That makes sense as there seem to be a lot of ceramics in European museums as [...]

景徳鎮陶瓷 Chinese porcelain from Ywe Hua

We went to YweHua Chinese department store in Jordan looking for Birthday present for Margaret (we did find some nice things in the end – parcel on its way). The department store is huge, with lots of interesting things, so we had a good hour or so looking through things (I’ll be sure to go [...]

伊万里焼 Imari porcelain history (Japanese? Chinese? English?)

Imari, is a place in South Kyushu Island of Japan, it is actually the name of a port, in Saga prefecture, and in Japan, it is more commonly called Arita-yaki (Arita ware) after the town Arita where many of these porcelains were made. Overseas, it is more commonly known as Imari.
As south of Japan was [...]