Inspired by ancient animal figurines, contemporary potters are making creatures that reflect the irregular beauty and magic of the natural world. By Nancy Hass Photographs by Patricia Heal Styled by ...
Dear Harry: I have a ceramic figurine titled “The Titian Madonna” that is marked on the bottom “A Borsato Original.” I purchased it about 35 years ago from Betty Sidel in Cherryville, Pa. She told me ...
Human eyes are as individual as fingerprints. Like those of a living person, the eyes of this ceramic figurine discovered recently at the site of Xanab Chak in the Puuc region of Mexico’s Yucatán ...
There have been many ceramic companies owned by members of the Goldscheider family, which can confuse today’s collectors. Friedrich Goldscheider moved from Pilsen, Bohemia, to Vienna in 1885. He ...
One of the small pleasures in the world of a thrifter is getting lost in the figurine shelves. There are so many things to see and touch, and these vintage statues are often so garish that you can ...
British artist Jessica Harrison sources traditional ceramic figurines and gives them a new lease of life with delicate, hand-painted tattoos. Claire Cohen reports Remember those porcelain ladies your ...
Susan Renaker Nikas still remembers the duck that saved her parents’ ceramics business nearly 70 years ago. The tiny bird was white and seemed to be gliding on a lake, designed on a whim by her mother ...
No Victorian parlor was complete without its whatnot crammed with porcelain curios and bric-a-brac. Potters of that day found an endless market for glossy, sentimental figures of puppies, kittens, ...
Musician and artist Nick Cave will have his debut commercial exhibition at Xavier Hufkens gallery in Brussels in 2024. Cave has called the work going on display as “a journey towards some kind of ...