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• How to Choose the Perfect Lamp Shade!
  Quality lampshade making is almost a lost art. It requires an eye, experience and lots of patience! Here we look at how to find the perfect lampshade.
  Published 28Oct2009, viewed 121 times

• Antiques - What's In a Word?
  Every specialist subject from the vast range of antiques has its own recognised group of descriptive terms and using the correct terminology simply makes the information being offered clear and easily understood.
  Published 11Oct2009, viewed 179 times

• Antique Lamps - A Lamp with a Message!
  We have all heard about the "message in a bottle". Here we look at an antique lamp with an ancient message!
  Published 10Oct2009, viewed 267 times

• Antique Lamps - Papier Mache
  Papier Mache has an ancient history of over 2000 years, but you would not expect to find antique lamps to be made of papier mache,but,yes,there are papier mache antique lamps!.
  Published 27Sep2009, viewed 94 times

• The Development of Classic French Style
  When we speak of early 19th century French design, we think, smart. For smart indeed, was this period of high classic style.
  Published 12Aug2009, viewed 93 times

• Chinese Imari - From the 18th century to The 21st century
  The Chinese attitude to their vast legacy of art and design differs markedly from Western thinking, which tends to classify art into different historic periods, associating styles, framed in time.
  Published 09Aug2009, viewed 85 times

• Antique Lamps - Peking Glass
  The Chinese glass, known as "Peking glass" in the West, has a long and interesting history. China was producing glass in 700 BC but in 1696 things changed.
  Published 02Aug2009, viewed 143 times

• Who's For Tea?
  The tea we drink and know so well is actually a camellia, Camellia sinensis. First discovered as a tea, or, dried leaf tip that could be added to boiling water as a drink. There is a lot more to know behind that cup of tea.
  Published 20Jun2009, viewed 100 times

• Art as an Allegorical Figure
  If we can imagine "art" as an allegorical figure, a curator of the world's storehouse of music, pictures, literature, sculpture etc, we would need many more than one life time to see all she has to show us! Art constantly sets new challenges for all our five senses so let us follow our allegorical guide and welcome her vast wealth.
  Published 27May2009, viewed 72 times

• From China to Porcelain
  Porcelain, is today, so widely available and is such an every day commodity, that we could very easily overlook just how different it was.
  Published 21May2009, viewed 77 times

• Bat Printing on Pottery and Porcelain
  The invention of transfer printing on porcelain and pottery was, without doubt, one of the most important innovations in the development of the ceramic industry.
  Published 14May2009, viewed 100 times

• Japan's Seto Imari and More.
  Historically, Japan has had a great influence on Western art including pictures, interior design, porcelain,architecture and certainly, the decorative arts.
  Published 09May2009, viewed 74 times

• Antique Table Lamps and the Eight Immortals
  Every age and every society has its saints and sages and with its long history, China has produced a great number, some so ancient, as to be lost, except for the echo.
  Published 31Mar2009, viewed 135 times

• Antique Lamps - In Cassolette Style
  Prior to the development of modern sanitation etc, hygiene was poorly understood and certainly received very little attention. The air was full of "smells" from a multitude of sources That great diarist and contemporary of Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn, made a special note in his diary in August 1653 that he was going to experiment with "an annual hair wash"
  Published 23Apr2009, viewed 113 times

• Antique Table Lamps for Interior Design - Chinoiserie
  In true Chinoiserie fairyland, Mandarins lived in fanciful, mountainous landscapes with cobweb bridges. They carried flower parasols, lolled in flimsy bamboo pavilions haunted by dragons and phœnixes, while monkeys swung from scrolling borders, always delicately drawn and full of free flowing movement with beautifully balanced composition.
  Published 29Mar2009, viewed 291 times

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