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This handy, portable reference enables readers to quickly identify and date Flow Blue wares with confidence. Color photos are grouped into three historic production periods, recognizable by their artistic styles, with guidelines to identifying Flow Blue by these periods. A brief synopsis of each English, American and European manufacturer whose ceramics appear in the text is given with their marks. The price guide has been updated to reflect t...

Meet an electric mouse and 149 of its closest friends in the volume that introduces you to the world of Pokmon collecting! The hottest Pokmon collectibles produced for the American market today are here in gorgeous color, including the immensely popular Trading Card Game, comics, figures, toys, and electronic games sure to excite every collector. Also included in the text are brief histories of Pokmon's development and the rise of trading card...

A fascinating compendium of the hand-made, mold-blown glassware produced in Morgantown, West Virginia, displayed in over 860 color photographs. The striking colors, etchings, cuttings, and cased filament stems make Morgantown glass distinctive and appealing. Descriptions of specific techniques are given by employees.

This in-depth pictorial survey provides 684 color photographs of Flow Blue ceramic wares produced throughout the Victorian Age. Central to the book is the presentation of the dinner wares, tea sets, and dessert services from four popular Flow Blue patterns: Cashmere, Chapoo, La Belle, and Touraine. Never before have so many pieces from these highly desirable patterns been shown. Also, illustrations display numerous spectacular teapots, syrup p...

Ceramic dinner services, housewares and tea sets decorated with finely detailed transfer prints in "Romantic Staffordshire" designs of the Victorian era. Over 500 color photos shown with a discussion of prints produced by English potteries, the manufacturers' marks, values guide, bibliography and index.

Hundreds of stunning color photos display the wearable artwork produced by today's top art jewelers, including one-of-a-kind necklaces, brooches, bracelets, rings, and earrings in gold, silver, mixed metals, glass, enamel work, found objects, and more. He

A quick reference guide to the wide ranging and popular McCoy pottery produced by the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Company, the Nelson McCoy Pottery Company, and McCoy Ltd. Spanning the twentieth century, the pottery presented here in over 500 vibrant color photographs ranges from bulb bowls, cookie jars, and jardinières to planters, vases, and wall pockets. A brief history of the company, a manufacturer's mark identification guide, an exte...

A magnificent tour of canes and staffs from the late seventeenth through the twentieth century in both folk art and formal designs. Color photographs provide a sweeping survey of the varying cane forms available to collectors today, including canes with handles bearing human and animal forms, scrimshaw and glass canes, gadget and weapons canes, political, and presentation canes. There is something to peak anyone's interest among these beautifu...

In this continuing, successful series, over 200 beautiful and inspiring color photos reveal the recent contributions to the field of interior design by talented designers participating in Decorator Showhouse events across the United States. Interior designers, assisted by a dedicated army of avid volunteers, transform rooms of historical houses into masterful works of art. Created to astound the public and contribute to charitable causes, thes...

Meet the brightly colored pottery that set the trend for casual mix-and-match dinnerware years before Fiesta! This pictorial overview of the pottery produced from the 1920s through the 1950s by the J. A. Bauer Pottery Company is illustrated with over 450 vibrant color photographs. Items ranging from brilliantly glazed dinnerwares and garden pots to massive oil jars and hand thrown vases are all included. A number of rare pieces are depicted as...

Presents a sweeping survey of colorful Fiesta Ware, the Homer Laughlin China Company's most popular dinnerware. Over 300 color photographs chronicle Fiesta's many forms, accompanied by a written history of the Homer Laughlin Company. This revised edition features new photographs and updated values.

Oyster plates, platters, and servers produced in porcelain, majolica, faïence, English ironstone, and French stoneware are displayed in over 475 beautiful color photographs. Ranging from the elegant to the everyday, these plates date from the mid-nineteenth through the late-twentieth century. The informative and interesting text includes histories of the major oyster plate manufacturers (including Minton, Wedgwood, Haviland, and the Quimper po...

The focus is on Flow Blue ceramics products of English potteries, with beautiful examples from America and elsewhere included. There are lovely teapots, children's tea and dinner services, potpourri jars, pitchers, platters, and plates illustrated in color and identified.

This book puts Flow Blue in its historical context of the Victorian age. The British, American and European manufacturers who produced Flow Blue, the exhibitions that promoted it, the people who owned it and what moved them to buy it are explored. Over 500 color photographs present the variety of forms and patterns in these popular wares from the 1840s to the turn of the twentieth century.

The artwork of over 50 contemporary mosaic artists reveals the diversity of materials used and forms created in this ever-growing field. From small pieces of glass, stone, pebbles, ceramics, found objects, and other materials known as tesserae, these artists paint images of great intricacy and stunning beauty. In skilled hands, these small angular bits of material form works of art that are filled with fluid motion and life. Presented here in ...

Ceramics produced by the Nelson McCoy Pottery Company and its predecessor, the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Company, are displayed in over 750 color photographs of utilitarian stonewares, cookie jars, beautiful artwares, vases, and more.A history of the companies, detailed discussion of McCoy manufacturing techniques, an examination of the manufacturer's marks, bibliography, appendix chronicling the many McCoy cookie jars, index, and update...

This survey of current trends in international woodworking explores the artists' inspirations and techniques. Veteran wood artists and newcomers are featured in hundreds of striking color photos. Includes carvers, turners, and sculptors of free standing and wall mounted sculptures, installation pieces, furniture, vessels, jars, vases, bowls, boxes, teapots, and much more. This useful and beautiful guide benefits buyers, art teachers, professor...

Inspiring color photos review the art of today's printmakers, from massive installation pieces to small and surprising three-dimensional works. The techniques range from classical to the experimental, including woodcuts, lithographs, screenprints, silkscreens, etching, mezzotint, serigraph print, linocut, solarplate, vitreograph, photoetching, aquatint, drypoint, digital transfer, and more. Each artist describes the techniques employed and ins...

Meet over 120 innovative ceramic artists through 495 striking colour photographs of original work from around the globe. From small objects for use and ornamentation to large-scale sculptures, see earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain finished in a variety of techniques. The artists share the inspiring influences that drive them year after year. This beautiful pictorial reference will become prized by ceramic art collectors, dealers, galleries...

Enjoy this overview of the wearable artwork created by more than one hundred of todays top art jewelers. The artists provide discussions of their work along with examples of their creativity. Hundreds of vibrant color photographs display one-of-a-kind works of art, including necklaces, brooches, bracelets, rings, and earrings in gold, silver, mixed metals, glass, and enamels, with found objects and innovative designs. In a departure from the p...