2,102円 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imag...

1,326円 Miller's Field Guides are an invaluable resource for collectors when out buying items at antiques shops, auctions or car boot fairs. They provide a fast and accurate way to recognize, identify and date antiques. In each book a simple question-and-answer checklist is provided for a wide range of k...

2,156円 With four potteries, the Fife town of Kirkcaldy was a major producer of pottery during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Fife Pottery, Rosslyn Pottery and Sinclairtown Pottery were all based in the Gallatown area of Kirkcaldy, while Kirkcaldy Pottery was in the Links, all well away from the...

2,387円 Die islamische Kunst ist weder die Kunst einer Nation noch eines Volkes, sondern die Kunst des Islam. Die von der arabischen Halbinsel kommenden Gläubigen eroberten innerhalb weniger Jahrhunderte ein Gebiet, das sich vom Atlantik bis zum Indischen Ozean erstreckte. Diese vielgestaltige, sehr spir...

2,387円 Les arts de l’Islam ne sont pas les arts d’une nation ni ceux d’un peuple, mais ceux d’une religion, l’Islam. Partis d’Arabie, ses croyants prosélytes surent conquérir, en quelques siècles, un territoire allant de l’océan Atlantique à l’océan Indien. Multiculturel et pluriethnique, cet art polymo...

2,387円 Du Moyen Âge à l'Époque contemporaine, l'art décoratif peut être défini par les matériaux, le design et les objets artistiques utilisés à la fois en architecture urbaine et en architecture d'intérieur. Comme beaucoup d'autres formes d'art, l'art décoratif continue à se développer, ajoutant à l'ut...

2,983円 - A practical guide for collectors of antique Chinese porcelain - Age signs of centuries old porcelain explained - Learn how to recognize authentic antiques and detect fakes - Why marks can not be used for dating Chinese ceramics - Features helping the identification of Chinese antiques, The resu...

300円 Some pottery tips for beginners Pottery is creative art and most people will get into it as a matter of hobby. However, some of those who have gone into pottery as a hobby have actually ended up becoming professional potters. Once the individual interested in pottery starts producing beautiful va...

6,633円 This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously construc...

1,432円 There are few pieces of pottery more recognisable than those designed by Clarice Cliff. For many the epitome of Art Deco, characterised by bold colour and lines, geometric shapes, and stylised representations of the countryside, Clarice Cliff's 'bizarre' pottery is collected all over the world. U...

1,432円 During her sixty-five-year career, Susie Cooper introduced more than 4,500 ceramic patterns and shapes, making her one of the most prolific, versatile and influential designers the industry has ever seen. Between the 1920s and 1980s she moved from the bold hand-painting of the 'Jazz Age' through ...

1,485円 An illustrated history of one of Britain's most popular potteries, by a rising star of the 'Antiques Roadshow'. Poole Pottery is a great British institution, and for more than 130 years has been in the very first rank of producers of tiles, mosaic flooring and advertising panels – as well as the ...