Antiques to Vintage & Everything In Between

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Antiques to Vintage & Everything In Between

from the editor

Curios • a name in antiques… bernard moss

When Nature Meets Perfect Design • LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY SET OUT TO DESIGN A LIGHT FIXTURE THAT COMBINED SHOWSTOPPING BEAUTY WITH STRAIGHTFORWARD FUNCTIONALITY. THE RESULT WAS HIS SPECTACULAR RANGE OF TIFFANY LAMPS. JULIE CARTER INVESTIGATES.

The Blue, Blue Beauty of Chalcedony • ADMIRED BY JEWELLERS AND JEWELLERY-LOVERS ALIKE FOR ITS BEAUTY AND DURABILITY, CHALCEDONY IS A SEMI-PRECIOUS GEMSTONE WHOSE USE STRETCHES BACK TO THE ANCIENT CIVILISATION OF EGYPT, GREECE AND ROME. ROSE MURPHY FROM TRESORS EXPLAINS.

Wonderful Whimsies: The Wade Sensation • IN 1954, WADE POTTERIES LAUNCHED A RANGE OF INEXPENSIVE MINIATURE ANIMAL FIGURINES AT THE BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR. FOR THE NEXT SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS THE WHIMSIES, AS THEY WERE CALLED, WERE IN CONTINUAL PRODUCTION.

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The Love Apple • HAS ANYONE EVER CALLED YOU MY LITTLE TOMATL? IF SO, YOU MIGHT WANT TO THINK ABOUT SLAPPING THEM. IT'S THE AZTEC WORD FOR TOMATO, SO IT SOUNDS LIKE A CUTE TERM OF ENDEARMENT, BUT ITS LITERAL TRANSLATION IS ‘PLUMP THING WITH A NAVEL’. DEBRA PALMEN LOOKS AT A FRUIT WITH MORE TO IT THAN YOU MIGHT IMAGINE…

The Glass of Empoli • MENTION COLOURFUL ITALIAN GLASS AND YOU PROBABLY THINK OF VENETIAN OR MURANO, BUT AS PAUL SHELDON WRITES THERE HAVE BEEN OTHER AREAS OF SIGNIFICANT GLASS PRODUCTION IN ITALY… ONE OF WHICH IS EMPOLI.

The Egg That Was First • EVERYONE LOVES A CHOCOLATE EGG AT EASTER, BUT AS JULIE CARTER WRITES, IN THE CASE OF THE RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY THE CONCEPT OF EASTER EGG GIVING WAS TAKEN TO EXTREMES.

Early Porcelain Mak ing In Victoria • THERE HAS LONG BEEN A PASSIONATE INTEREST IN THE COLLECTING OF AUSTRALIAN POTTERY. INITIALLY THIS WAS LED BY DEDICATED COLLECTORS AND RESEARCHERS WHO PUBLISHED BOOKS AND CURATED GROUND-BREAKING EXHIBITIONS ON ALL ASPECTS OF THE TOPIC. GREGORY HILL IS ONE SUCH AUTHOR, COLLECTOR AND RESEARCHER WHO HAS JUST PUBLISHED HIS LATEST BOOK, VICTORIA'S EARLIEST PORCELAIN WORKS.

Maximalism and the Decluttering Trend: Can The Two Coexist? • LET'S FIRST DISSECT THESE TWO IDEAS SAYS TIRA LEWIS, MEDIA MANAGER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN ANTIQUE & ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Power, Pleasure and Porcelain • ROSALIND COX CONSIDERS THE REMARKABLE LIFE AND LEGACY OF FREDERICK AUGUSTUS II, ELECTOR OF SAXONY AND KING OF POLAND, A FORMIDABLE RULER WITH A PASSION FOR THE ARTS, POWER AND PLEASURE.

The Sydney Cove Medallion • WRITING IN HIS REVIEW OF THE RECENT ADELAIDE EXHIBITION WEDGWOOD: MASTER POTTER OF THE UNIVERSE, ART CRITIC FOR THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER CHRISTOPHER ALLEN SAID: ‘THE MOST REMARKABLE OBJECTS BY FAR ARE SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF THE SYDNEY COVE MEDALLION’. QUITE A STATEMENT GIVEN THE QUALITY OF WEDGWOOD WARES AND PRESENTATION PIECES ON DISPLAY.

Victorian Glass Novelties and Oddities: Part Two • GLASS SOUVENIRS WERE A COMMON NOVELTY THROUGHOUT BRITAIN, EUROPE AND AMERICA, WRITES SPECIALIST COLLECTOR JOHN FRITH, ESPECIALLY AS LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL WAS A POPULAR PAST-TIME AND WELL AFFORDED BY THE NEW WEALTHY MIDDLE CLASS.

Bonkers for Eye Baths • WHEN RETIRED EYE SURGEON GEORGE STURROCK DECIDED TO PUBLISH A BOOK ON COLLECTING EYE BATHS IN 2012, HE KNEW HE WAS APPEALING TO A NICHE...