Ceramics Collection (page 10)

Ceramics of the Green Mosque in Bursa, Turkey
The Green Mosque (Yesil Camii) is one of the most important pieces of early Ottoman architecture, which carried many elements from the Selcuk architecture

Girls with China 1894
So great is the mania for blue china in late 19th century England that theres even a childrens book on the subject - here, two girls handle the precious items. Date: 1894

Pavilion Perusson, exhibit of bricks, enamels, terre-cotta and ceramics, for M. Perusson and Desfontaines, architect T. Ferret, located near the base of Eiffel Tower, Paris Exposition, 1889. Date 1889

Exhibition Metropolitan housing project sketches, sculpture, ceramics, murals. Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of metropolitan housing project sketches, sculpture, ceramics

Pottery workshop in ancient Etruria
The decoration of pottery in a workshop in ancient Etruria. A rather stern woman stands in the doorway, clutching a vase

William Fishley Holland at work
Mr William Fishley Holland at work on a vase at Clevedon Pottery. Fishley Holland was grandson of Edwin Beer Fishley, who ran the Fremington Pottery in North Devon from 1865 to 1906. Date: 1950

China Tea Service
This delicate china tea service would grace any dinner table. Date: early 1930s

UK ceramics Industry at Burslem, Staffs (1 / 4)
Dippers at work, glazing the ware, Date: circa 1910s

UK ceramics Industry at Burslem, Staffs (4 / 4)
Flat presser making dishes at a pottery in Burslem, Staffs Date: circa 1910s

UK ceramics Industry at Burslem, Staffs (2 / 4)
Making toilet ware at Burslem, Staffs (making the jugs for jug and basin sets). Date: circa 1910s

UK ceramics Industry at Burslem, Staffs (3 / 4)
Potter at his wheel (in his 80th year!) making vases Date: circa 1910s

The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co Durham, England, is a French style chateau, housing a permanent collection of art, furniture and ceramics. Date: opened 1892

SEVEN DWARFS CHINA
Popular china for babies and children - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, here featuring Sneezy, Dopey and Bashful ! Date: 1930s

Antique Shop Haggling
A gentleman takes off his spectacles in disbelief at the price the old man in this jumbled antique shop is asking for a figurine. Time to haggle! Date: 1960s

Dainty Breakfast Set
Impress your friends and relatives with this dainty breakfast set, with lovely matching toast rack, tureen, coffee pot and tea pot, cruet set and egg cups etc. Date: 1930s

Dresden China Bells
Bells being manufactured in Dresden, Germany, to build a carillon (a musical instrument made of bells which play in a chromatic sequence) which will play in a Berlin park. Date: 24 January 1930

Spotted Dinner Ware
Spots are smart! Spots are as popular on dinner services as on curtains. Lovely spotted glass and spotted table linen - a must for the modern hostess. Date: 1930s

Indian Potter
A potters wheel, India. Date: 1930s

Hand Painting Pottery
A lady with rather a long nose, hand painting pottery. Date: early 1930s

Luca Della Robbia
LUCA DELLA ROBBIA Italian sculptor, best known for those much-reproduced ceramics depicting cute cherubs on a blue background. Date: 1399 - 1482

Making Ceramic Dogs
A woman puts the finishing touches to ceramic dogs, popular cottage ornaments. Date: circa 1900

Coffee Set 1930S
A cream china coffee set with gilt edging and decoration. Date: 1930s

DERBY POSIES TEASET
A lovely Derby Posies fine bone china tea set, decorated with roses, including matching teapot, teacups, milk jug and sugar bowl. Date: 1930s

A Pottery Factory
Workers (and the manager or owner - at right) in a Turkish pottery and sand-casting factory

Egypt - Rod el Farag - Pot Factory
A Pottery at Rod el Farag, Cairo, Egypt

Pottery Sellers - Tangiers, Morocco

Tunisian potter in his shop
A Tunisian potter surrounded by his wares in his shop

Burslem & Longport
Distant view of Burslem and Longport, Staffordshire, centres of the ceramics industry

France Gien
Gien, on the Loire about 80km from Orleans, is famous for its faience ceramics

A Display of Vases
Vases by Clarey of Asnieres, in a variety of shapes and sizes, weird and wonderful, the sort of thing you find in dusty antique shops or the marche aux puces

Pile of Pots / Sakara
A street in Sakara. A young girl stands close to a stall selling decorated pots

Biscuit Kiln
Interior of a biscuit kiln

Finds from Hissarlik
Some of the finds from Heinrich Schliemanns excavations at the site of Ancient Troy at Hissarlik. These include hair-pins and an ivory arrowhead

German Porcelain Bowl
A tour-de-force of porcelain work from Berlin, neither beautiful nor useful (you could just use it for sweeties) but one has to marvel at the craftsmanship

Worcester China Vase
This Worcester china vase makes no attempt to conceal its design origins - shape and ornamentation are both clearly in the Chinese manner

Limoges Enamel C16
Enamelled dish from Limoges, France - not the sort of thing to entrust to your dishwasher

Chinese, Jap Porcelain
Porcelain from the East : a Chinese beaker and teapot, and a Japanese vase and dishes

Worcester China Vase 2
Why import Chinese vases all the way from China when the craftsmen at the Worcester manufactory can produce work like this ?

Sevres Porcelain Vase
A Porcelain vase from Sevres, France, in the traditional over-the-top French style

Chinese Porcelain - 5
Chinese porcelain : two dishes, decors famille rose from the 5th epoch

Wegdwood & Byerley / 1809
Customers browsing in Wedgwood & Byerleys shop in York Street, St James Square, London

Wedgwood Works
Workers in Wedgwoods pottery factory

Floor Ceramics (C14)
Example of medieval French floor tiling

Wedgwood / Music Cover
An illustration of a typical Wedgwood design on the cover of the music sheet Wedgwood Blue

Ceramics / Kiln 1902
A busy scene in the kiln yards at Britannia Pottery, Glasgow, Scotland

Industry Ceramics
The enamel used in decorating ceramics contains 60% lead, with the result that 2 out of 3 workers suffer from lung diseases

Porcelain manufacture
Kilns for large-scale porcelain manufacture

Potters at Work C19
Potters at work, one barefoot at his wheel and his two colleagues finishing a bowl and putting a vase on a shelf on tiptoe

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