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2024 Moving into 2025 Design Trends Likely to Affect Value of Personal Property

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Scandinavian furniture continues to be popular with its fresh-washed colors, clean lines, and good quality, especially in this era focused on sustainability. Items such as folk art, unique and creative paintings, hand-blown Venetian glass, delft style ceramic tiles, handmade vases, and quilts are splashed throughout interiors.

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Antique Porcelain Dolls: How Much Are Porcelain Dolls Worth?

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With this Chinese ceramic material, doll makers could finally create intricately painted faces, lifelike features, and beautifully constructed clothing. For example, dolls from the 1800’s to 1900’s have rooted or lifelike hair rather than painted hair, and their clothing is typically made of leather.

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Types of Chinese Art: A Guide to Valuing & Collecting Chinese Art

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From delicate porcelains , intricately carved jades , and serene ink landscape paintings to regal robes , brazen stone lions , and fantastic dragons , these artworks are imbued with historical traditions and motifs from as early as 10,000 B.C. “As after which artisans mastered the blue and white painted porcelain popular today.

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How to Collect Pfaltzgraff Pottery in an Uncertain Market

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The company relied on the area’s abundant blue and red clay for its high-quality stoneware and bone china dinnerware. Equipped with two horses, three kilns, and stencils to replace time-consuming hand painting, the brothers set the company on a path to success by adapting it for mass production. Pfaltzgraff in York, Pennsylvania.

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The Wemyss Ware Buyer’s Guide: 5 Classic Pieces You Need in Your Collection

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Instantly alluring with its quirky, hand-painted style, Wemyss Ware put Scotland firmly on the map as masters of naturalistic pottery. The iconic line of ceramics – envisioned by a pottery owner and decorator in 1882 – counts Elton John as a fan, with the Queen Mother also said to have been a collecting devotee.

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5 Hot Lots Coming to Auction in April

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Heisey glass collectors will want to explore the Evening Heisey Auction on April 11 at Apple Tree Auction Center of Newark, Ohio, which specializes in high-quality pressed glass. Experts of Lewis’s work, Miller & Miller has sold many of her paintings, including Black Truck , which she once traded for some grilled cheese sandwiches.

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Ming vs Qing Dynasty Art and Antiques

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The exceptionally varied artistic production of this golden age of Chinese culture, from ceramics to painting and calligraphy can be separated between the two dynasties that share distinct characteristics and artistic achievements that evolved Chinese cultural heritage. Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (r.1402–1424)